cerebral malaria
Seizures in childhood cerebral malaria
... with cerebral malaria is more likely to be caused by continuing subtle seizure ac tivity than by ...following cerebral anoxia (SiMON & AMINOFF, 1986), and attacks of nystagmus tiiat are of ...
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NeuroInterp: A method for facilitating neuroimaging research on cerebral malaria
... Radiologic data are increasingly important in clinical care guidelines for neurologic disorders and in the conduct of clinical trials assessing novel therapies. The infrastructure and expertise for neuroradiologic ...
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Cerebral malaria in children: using the retina to study the brain
... or cerebral microvascular architecture with other organs in which se- questration is minimal or ...and cerebral data in retinopathy-positive paediatric cerebral mal- aria by incorporating information ...
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Suppression of experimental cerebral malaria by disruption of malate:quinone oxidoreductase
... in malaria parasites via two routes: (i) from phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) by phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) in the cytosol, or (ii) from fumarate by consecutive reactions catalyzed by fumarate hydratase (FH) ...
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CEREBRAL MALARIA IN CHILDREN IN LWIRO (South Kivu DRC)
... with malaria who presented neurological ...with cerebral malaria only was 71.3% followed by cerebral malaria associated to anemia ...of cerebral malaria in the study ...
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Toll like receptor polymorphisms and cerebral malaria: TLR2 Δ22 polymorphism is associated with protection from cerebral malaria in a case control study
... from cerebral malaria, and that this protection may be due to a dam- pening of the pro-inflammatory ...with cerebral malaria, future studies examin- ing responses to pam3cys and parasitized ...
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Differential PfEMP1 Expression Is Associated with Cerebral Malaria Pathology
... detected type, being observed in seven hosts. In three CM2 patients: 62, 78 and 83, it was the mostly highly expressed var type in the brain. It was also amplified in two additional brain samples and in three samples ...
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Molecular basis of human cerebral malaria development
... Cerebral malaria (CM) is a life-threatening disease that represents a global health problem particularly in tropical ...2015, malaria transmission still occurs in approximately 97 countries and ...
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Coagulation and the endothelium in malawian children with cerebral malaria
... fatal cerebral malaria demonstrated that even in the specialist research facility in Blantyre with highly experienced clinicians, 23% of patients who met this clinical definition of cerebral ...
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Brain swelling and death in children with cerebral malaria
... 27. Potchen MJ, Kampondeni SD, Ibrahim K, et al. NeuroInterp: a method for facili- tating neuroimaging research on cerebral malaria. Neurology 2013;81:585-8. 28. Potchen MJ, Kampondeni SD, Seydel KB, et al. ...
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Cytokine profiles in Malawian children presenting with uncomplicated malaria, severe malarial anemia and cerebral malaria
... with cerebral malaria, severe malarial anemia and uncomplicated malaria presenting to the Pediatric Accident and Emergency Clinic at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, ...
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Indocyanine Green Liposomes for Diagnosis and Therapeutic Monitoring of Cerebral Malaria
... of malaria. In 2013 there were about 198 million cases of malaria and an estimated 584,000 deaths, mostly among African children ...[1]. Cerebral malaria (CM), a diffuse encephalopathy caused ...
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Cerebral malaria is associated with differential cytoadherence to brain endothelial cells
... Cerebral malaria isolates adhered equally well to HBMEC and HDMEC, and binding levels were highly correlated, in agreement with earlier work for laboratory strains that were selected for bind- ing to HBMEC ...
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Original Article Increased synapsin I expression in cerebral malaria
... Cerebral malaria (CM) is one of the major fatal complications of Plasmodium falciparum infec- tion. The condition is associated with a mortal- ity rate of 15-20% in severe malaria cases [1]. ...
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Early prediction of cerebral malaria by 1H NMR based metabolomics
... non-cerebral malaria (NCM) is nearly 50 % [11] and this allowed the addressal of metabolic suscepti- bility not only within the same genotypes, but also within the same batch of ...
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Schistosoma mansoni infection reduces the incidence of murine cerebral malaria
... Mice were infected with 50 or 100 S. mansoni cercariae by subcutaneous injection. Four or seven weeks later, one group of each condition was infected with 5 × 10 4 P. berghei-parasitized red blood cells, an inoculum ...
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From METS to malaria: RRx 001, a multi faceted anticancer agent with activity in cerebral malaria
... Mice infected with PbA exhibit similar neurological im- pairments to those in P. falciparum infected humans, in- cluding ataxia, hemiplegias, and seizures (Fig. 2c). As in humans, survival with ECM does not necessarily ...
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Human cerebral malaria and Plasmodium falciparum genotypes in Malawi
... that malaria retinopathy is strongly associated with pathological confirmation of cere- bral parasite sequestration, while parasitaemic comatose patients without malaria retinopathy represent a diverse ...
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Cytokine Profiles in Malawian Children Presenting with Uncomplicated Malaria, Severe Malarial Anemia, and Cerebral Malaria
... ABSTRACT Proinflammatory cytokines are involved in clearance of Plasmodium falci- parum, and very high levels of these cytokines have been implicated in the patho- genesis of severe malaria. In order to determine ...
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Scanning electron microscopy of the neuropathology of murine cerebral malaria
... Background: The mechanisms leading to death and functional impairments due to cerebral malaria (CM) are yet not fully understood. Most of the knowledge about the pathomechanisms of CM originates from ...
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