Evidence of blood-brain barrier dysfunction in human cerebral malaria.

Patients infected with the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum may develop a diffuse reversible encephalopathy, termed cerebral malaria. It is unclear how the intraerythrocytic parasite, which sequesters in the cerebral microvasculature but does not enter the brain parenchyma, induces this neurol...

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Autors principals: Brown, H, Hien, T, Day, N, Mai, N, Chuong, L, Chau, T, Loc, P, Phu, N, Bethell, D, Farrar, J, Gatter, K, White, N, Turner, G
Format: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicat: 1999