Cerebrospinal fluid and serum biomarkers of cerebral malaria mortality in Ghanaian children

BACKGROUND: Plasmodium falciparum can cause a diffuse encephalopathy known as cerebral malaria (CM), a major contributor to malaria associated mortality. Despite treatment, mortality due to CM can be as high as 30% while 10% of survivors of the disease may experience short- and long-term neurologica...

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Autores principales: Armah, Henry B, Wilson, Nana O, Sarfo, Bismark Y, Powell, Michael D, Bond, Vincent C, Anderson, Winston, Adjei, Andrew A, Gyasi, Richard K, Tettey, Yao, Wiredu, Edwin K, Tongren, Jon Eric, Udhayakumar, Venkatachalam, Stiles, Jonathan K
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2186349/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17997848
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-6-147

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