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Cerebral Malaria

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Neurology
Subtitle of host publicationA Clinical Approach
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
Pages285-289
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9781405157384
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 May 2010

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

  • Cerebral malaria caused by P. vivax
  • Cerebral malaria may be defined strictly as unrousable coma
  • Clinical manifestations of malaria differ considerably depending on the intensity of malaria transmission
  • Consciousness can be impaired by various interacting mechanisms
  • Malaria infects approximately 5% of the world's population
  • Parasitemia with more than 4% parasitemia in nonimmune patients is associated with occurrence of complications or death
  • Parasitized (PRBC) and non-parasitized (NPRBC) red blood cells
  • Pathogenesis of coma
  • Plasmodium falciparum is the only species of human malaria that induces cytoadherence of PRBCs

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