Erythropoietin Levels Increase during Cerebral Malaria and Correlate with Heme, Interleukin-10 and Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha in India.

Cerebral malaria (CM) caused by Plasmodium falciparum parasites often leads to the death of infected patients or to persisting neurological sequelae despite anti-parasitic treatments. Erythropoietin (EPO) was recently suggested as a potential adjunctive treatment for CM. However diverging results we...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Esther Dalko, Nicolas Tchitchek, Laurent Pays, Fabien Herbert, Pierre-André Cazenave, Balachandran Ravindran, Shobhona Sharma, Serge Nataf, Bidyut Das, Sylviane Pied
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4956275?pdf=render