Plasma Uric Acid Levels Correlate with Inflammation and Disease Severity in Malian Children with Plasmodium falciparum Malaria

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Lopera Mesa, Tatiana M ^a   Mita Mendoza, Neida K ^a,b   van de Hoef, Diana L ^c   Doumbia, Saibou ^d   Konaté, Drissa ^d   Doumbouya, Mory ^d   Gu, Wenjuan ^a,e   Traoré, Karim ^d   Diakité, Seidina A S ^d   Remaley, Alan T ^f   Anderson, Jennifer M ^a   Rodriguez, Ana ^c   Fay, Michael P ^a   Long, Carole A ^a   Diakité, Mahamadou ^d   Fairhurst, Rick M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BAMAKO   (Mali)

^e SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE PLUS ARTESUNATE; CREATININE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; URIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MALIAN; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION DENSITY; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CREATININE; CYTOKINES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALI; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; URIC ACID;

MALIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84867168482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046424     Document Type: Article

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