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Hemoglobin Genotypes Modulate Inflammatory Response to Plasmodium Infection.
Frontiers in immunology - 1 Jan 2020
Harp Keri Oxendine, Botchway Felix, Dei-Adomakoh Yvonne, Wilson Michael D, Hood Joshua L, Adjei Andrew A, Stiles Jonathan K, Driss Adel
Abstract excerpt
In 2018, 228 million cases and 405,000 malaria-associated deaths were reported worldwide with a majority being in Africa. A wide range of factors, including parasitemia, host immunity, inflammatory responses to infection, and host hemoglobin genotype, mediate the severity of malaria. Among the hemoglobinopathies, hemoglobin S (HbS) is caused by a single amino acid substitution of Glutamic Acid replaced by Valine...
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