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Plasma interleukin-10:Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha ratio is associated with TNF promoter variants and predicts malarial complications.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Nov 2000
May J, Lell B, Luty A J, Meyer C G, Kremsner P G
Abstract excerpt
In individuals with severe malarial anemia, plasma levels of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha tend to exceed those of interleukin (IL)-10. In this study, IL-10:TNF plasma level ratios <1 were found to be a risk factor for both cerebral malaria and severe anemia (P=.009), whereas higher IL-10:TNF ratios were observed more frequently in hyperparasitemic individuals. When considering allelic variants of the TNF...
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