Severe malarial anemia and cerebral malaria are associated with different tumor necrosis factor promoter alleles.
Experimental evidence implicates tumor necrosis factor (TNF) in the pathogenesis of malarial anemia, but there are few data relating to this hypothesis. This study found that severely anemic children with Plasmodium falciparum infection have low plasma TNF levels, in contrast to the high levels foun...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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1999
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