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SUBMITTER: Barrera V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6668485 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Barrera Valentina V Haley Michael J MJ Strangward Patrick P Attree Elizabeth E Kamiza Steve S Seydel Karl B KB Taylor Terrie E TE Milner Danny A DA Craig Alister G AG Couper Kevin N KN
Frontiers in immunology 20190724
CD8<sup>+</sup> T cells have been shown to play a critical role in the pathogenesis of experimental cerebral malaria (ECM) in mice, but their role in development of human cerebral malaria (HCM) remains unclear. Thus, in this study we have provided the first direct contrast of the accumulation of CD8<sup>+</sup> T cells in the brain during HCM and ECM. HCM cases were from children who died of <i>Plasmodium falciparum</i> cerebral malaria at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (Malawi) between 2003 a ...[more]