[HTML][HTML] Malaria and COVID-19: unmasking their ties

MIH Hussein, AAD Albashir, OAMA Elawad… - Malaria journal, 2020 - Springer
The incidence and mortality of COVID-19, according to the World Health Organization
reports, shows a noticeable difference between North America, Western Europe, and South …

Cerebral Plasmodium falciparum malaria: The role of PfEMP1 in its pathogenesis and immunity, and PfEMP1‐based vaccines to prevent it

AR Jensen, Y Adams, L Hviid - Immunological reviews, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Malaria, a mosquito‐borne infectious disease caused by parasites of the genus Plasmodium
continues to be a major health problem worldwide. The unicellular Plasmodium‐parasites …

[HTML][HTML] Malaria and parasitic neglected tropical diseases: potential syndemics with COVID-19?

JR Gutman, NW Lucchi, PT Cantey… - The American journal …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by SARS-CoV-2, have surpassed 5 million cases globally.
Current models suggest that low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) will have a similar …

Pathogenesis, clinical features, and neurological outcome of cerebral malaria

R Idro, NE Jenkins, CRJC Newton - The Lancet Neurology, 2005 - thelancet.com
Cerebral malaria is the most severe neurological complication of Plasmodium falciparum
malaria. Even though this type of malaria is most common in children living in sub-Saharan …

Evolutionary causes and consequences of immunopathology

AL Graham, JE Allen, AF Read - Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst., 2005 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Immune responses can cause severe disease, despite the role immunity plays in
defending against parasitism. Indeed, immunopathology is a remarkably common cause of …

[HTML][HTML] Cerebral malaria in mouse and man

N Ghazanfari, SN Mueller, WR Heath - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Cerebral malaria (CM) is an acute encephalopathy caused by the malaria parasite
Plasmodium falciparum, which develops in a small minority of infected patients and is …

Cytokines in the pathogenesis of and protection against malaria

I Angulo, M Fresno - Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, 2002 - Am Soc Microbiol
Malaria is caused by the protozoan Plasmodium, transmitted to humans by Anopheles
mosquitoes. The most dangerous of the plasmodia infecting humans is Plasmodium …

[HTML][HTML] Neurological complications of malaria

S Trivedi, A Chakravarty - Current neurology and neuroscience reports, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review To discuss the neurological complications and pathophysiology
of organ damage following malaria infection. Recent Findings The principal advancement …

Malaria and anemia

H Ekvall - Current opinion in hematology, 2003 - journals.lww.com
Anemia due to Plasmodium falciparum infection is a major health problem in endemic areas
for young children and pregnant women. The anemia is caused by excess removal of …

[HTML][HTML] Serum angiopoietin-1 and-2 levels discriminate cerebral malaria from uncomplicated malaria and predict clinical outcome in African children

FE Lovegrove, N Tangpukdee, RO Opoka, EI Lafferty… - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Background Limited tools exist to identify which individuals infected with Plasmodium
falciparum are at risk of developing serious complications such as cerebral malaria (CM) …