Supraorbital postmortem brain sampling for definitive quantitative confirmation of cerebral sequestration of plasmodium falciparum parasites

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 205, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1601-1606

  Milner, Danny A ^a,b,c,e   Valim, Clarissa ^c   Luo, Robert ^a   Playforth, Krupa B ^a   Kamiza, Steve ^e   Molyneux, Malcolm E ^f,g   Seydel, Karl B ^d,e   Taylor, Terrie E ^d,e  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^f MALAWI LIVERPOOL WELLCOME TRUST CLINICAL RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Malawi)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN MALARIA; CEREBRAL SEQUESTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FRONTAL BONE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE INCIDENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED KINGDOM; VALIDITY;

EID: 84860381380     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jis001     Document Type: Article

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