The impact of genetic susceptibility to systemic lupus erythematosus on placental malaria in mice.

Severe malaria, including cerebral malaria (CM) and placental malaria (PM), have been recognized to have many of the features of uncontrolled inflammation. We recently showed that in mice genetic susceptibility to the lethal inflammatory autoimmune disease, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), confer...

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Main Authors: Michael Waisberg, Christina K Lin, Chiung-Yu Huang, Mirna Pena, Marlene Orandle, Silvia Bolland, Susan K Pierce
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3651086?pdf=render