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Grading fluorescein angiograms in malarial retinopathy [PDF]
This work was funded by The Wellcome Trust (IJCM, SPH, NAVB, MEM, DP, SoL: Grant No. 092668/Z/10/Z; Core Grant No. 084679/Z/08/Z).Background: Malarial retinopathy is an important finding in Plasmodium falciparum cerebral malaria, since it strengthens ...
Malcolm E. Molyneux +29 more
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Blood-Brain Barrier in Cerebral Malaria: Pathogenesis and Therapeutic Intervention.
Cerebral malaria is a life-threatening complication of malaria caused by the parasite Plasmodium falciparum. The growing problem of drug resistance and the dearth of new antiparasitic drugs are a serious threat to the antimalaria treatment regimes ...
G. Nishanth, D. Schlüter
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Severe falciparum malaria in Gabonese children: clinical and laboratory features. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Malaria continues to claim one to two million lives a year, mainly those of children in sub-Saharan Africa. Reduction in mortality depends, in part, on improving the quality of hospital care, the training of healthcare workers and ...
Mboza, Béatrice +51 more
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BIOMOLECULAR ASPECTS AND UPDATE ON TREATMENT OF CEREBRAL MALARIA
Malaria is still becoming a health problem in the world and in Indonesia. Cerebral malaria is one of many features of severe and life threatening malaria. Many hypotheses underlying the pathophysiology of cerebral malaria have been disclosed, but the one
Machlusil Husna, Bowo Hery Prasetyo
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Cerebral malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum is the severest form of the disease resulting in the morbidity of a huge number of people worldwide. Development of effective curatives is essential in order to overcome the fatality of cerebral malaria ...
Malabika Chakrabarti +5 more
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Desperately seeking therapies for cerebral malaria
Malaria is a deadly infectious disease caused by parasites of the Plasmodium spp. that takes an estimated 435,000 lives each year, primarily among young African children. For most children, malaria is a febrile illness that resolves with time, but in ∼1%
Brittany A. Riggle, L. Miller, S. Pierce
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Age patterns of severe paediatric malaria and their relationship to Plasmodium falciparum transmission intensity. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: The understanding of the epidemiology of severe malaria in African children remains incomplete across the spectrum of Plasmodium falciparum transmission intensities through which communities might expect to transition, as intervention ...
Abdullah Al-Taiar +25 more
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Background Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 infection increases the burden of malaria by increasing susceptibility to infection and decreasing the response to malarial treatment.
Byarugaba Justus +3 more
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CD8+ T cells target cerebrovasculature in children with cerebral malaria.
BACKGROUND Cerebral malaria (CM) accounts for nearly 400,000 deaths annually in African children. Current dogma suggests that CM results from infected RBC (iRBC) sequestration in the brain microvasculature and resulting sequelae.
Brittany A. Riggle +11 more
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Cytoadherence and virulence - the case of Plasmodium knowlesi malaria. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Cytoadherence of infected red blood cells to brain endothelium is causally implicated in malarial coma, one of the severe manifestations of falciparum malaria.
Cox-Singh, J +41 more
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