Piecing together the puzzle of severe malaria

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 211, 2013, Pages

  Cunnington, Aubrey J ^a   Walther, Michael ^b   Riley, Eleanor M ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Division of Intramural Research   (United States)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CYTOKINE; ENDOTHELIAL PROTEIN C RECEPTOR; NITRIC OXIDE; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ACIDOSIS; ANEMIA; BRAIN MALARIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HYPERLACTATEMIA; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITEMIA; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; REVIEW; SEVERE MALARIA SYNDROME; SYNDROME;

HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84890042231     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3007432     Document Type: Review

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