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SUBMITTER: Milner DA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4577044 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Milner Danny A DA Lee Jonathan J JJ Frantzreb Charles C Whitten Richard O RO Kamiza Steve S Carr Richard A RA Pradham Alana A Factor Rachel E RE Playforth Krupa K Liomba George G Dzamalala Charles C Seydel Karl B KB Molyneux Malcolm E ME Taylor Terrie E TE
The Journal of infectious diseases 20150407 8
Children in sub-Saharan Africa continue to acquire and die from cerebral malaria, despite efforts to control or eliminate the causative agent, Plasmodium falciparum. We present a quantitative histopathological assessment of the sequestration of parasitized erythrocytes in multiple organs obtained during a prospective series of 103 autopsies performed between 1996 and 2010 in Blantyre, Malawi, on pediatric patients who died from cerebral malaria and controls. After the brain, sequestration of par ...[more]