Complement binding to erythrocytes is associated with macrophage activation and reduced haemoglobin in Plasmodium falciparum malaria

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 545-549

  Goka, Bamenla Q ^a   Kwarko, Harriet ^a   Kurtzhals, Jorgen A L ^a,b,c   Gyan, Ben ^b   Ofori Adjei, Eugenia ^a   Ohene, Sally Ann ^a   Hviid, Lars ^c   Akanmori, Bartholomew D ^b   Neequaye, Janet ^a  

^a KORLE BU TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Ghana)

^b University of Ghana   (Ghana)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Children; Complement; Coombs' test; Erythrophagocytosis; Ghana; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; HAPTOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERLEUKIN 10; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NEOPTERIN; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AFRICA; AGE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; COMPLEMENT DEPOSITION; COMPLEMENT FIXATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOMBS TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROPHAGOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRAVASCULAR HEMOLYSIS; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPLENOMEGALY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; COOMBS' TEST; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TREMATODA;

EID: 0035467569     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(01)90036-7     Document Type: Article

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