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The anemia of malaria infection: role of inflammatory cytokines.
Current hematology reports - 1 Mar 2004
McDevitt Michael A, Xie Jianlin, Gordeuk Victor, Bucala Richard
Abstract excerpt
Death from malaria occurs from the complications of the infection: cerebral manifestations leading to coma and a severe and refractory anemia leading to hypoxia and cardiac decompensation. Several mechanisms have been identified to play a role in the pathogenesis of malarial anemia, such as erythrocyte lysis and phagocytosis, and sequestration of parasitized red blood cells, but recent data indicate that these...
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