- Abstract:
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BACKGROUND: The intraerythrocytic parasite Plasmodium falciparum induces the life-threatening neurologic syndrome of cerebral malaria (CM) from within cerebral blood vessels, without entering the brain parenchyma. OBJECTIVES: 1) To assess the use of CSF as an indicator of specific pathologic processes occurring in the brain during CM; 2) to compare this with other neurologic and infectious diseases to understand the distinct pathogenic features of CM; 3) to test the hypothesis that CM involve...
Expand abstract - Publication status:
- Published
- Journal:
- Neurology
- Volume:
- 55
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 104-111
- Publication date:
- 2000-07-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1526-632X
- ISSN:
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0028-3878
- URN:
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uuid:578c1539-919c-431a-935a-df5d1714507a
- Source identifiers:
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27017
- Local pid:
- pubs:27017
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Copyright date:
- 2000
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Blood-brain barrier function in cerebral malaria and CNS infections in Vietnam.
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