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SUBMITTER: Fox LL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3699003 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fox Lindsay L LL Taylor Terrie E TE Pensulo Paul P Liomba Alice A Mpakiza Ashley A Varela Amanda A Glover Simon J SJ Reeves Mathew J MJ Seydel Karl B KB
The Journal of infectious diseases 20130422 3
Some children with uncomplicated malaria progress to cerebral malaria despite appropriate treatment; identifying them in advance might improve their care. The objective of this study was to determine if plasma concentrations of a malaria protein, HRP2 (histidine-rich protein 2) would serve this purpose. Cases and controls were children presenting with uncomplicated malaria; the cases (n = 25) developed cerebral malaria, and the controls (n = 125) did not. Mean plasma HRP2 concentrations were sig ...[more]