A study on the pathogenesis of human cerebral malaria and cerebral babesiosis

Cerebral complications are important, but poorly understood pathological features of infections caused by some species of Plasmodium and Babesia. Patients dying from P. falciparum were classified as cerebral or non-cerebral cases according to the cerebral malaria coma scale. Light microscopy reveale...

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Main Authors: Masamichi Aikawa, Emsri Pongponratn, Tatsuya Tegoshi, Kei-Ichiro Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Nagatake, Alan Cochrane, Luiz S. Ozaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 1992-01-01
Series:Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz.
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02761992000700051