Correlation of hemorrhage, axonal damage and blood-tissue barrier disruption in brain and retina of Malawian children with fatal cerebral malaria

Correlation of hemorrhage, axonal damage and blood-tissue barrier disruption in brain and retina of Malawian children with fatal cerebral malaria

Background: The retinal and brain histopathological findings in children who died from cerebral malaria (CM) have been recently described. Similar changes occur in both structures, but the findings have not been directly compared in the same patients. In this study we compared clinical retinal fi...

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Main Authors: Jesse eGreiner, Katerina eDorovini-Zis, Terrie E Taylor, Malcolm Edward Molyneux, Nicholas eBeare, Steve eKamiza, Valerie A White
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
Subjects:
Permeability
sequestration
Key Words: cerebral malaria
malaria retinopathy
hemorrhages
axonal damage
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fcimb.2015.00018/full

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