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ArticleThe Journal of infectious diseases2013

Plasma and cerebrospinal proteomes from children with cerebral malaria differ from those of children with other encephalopathies.

Evelyn N Gitau, Gilbert O Kokwaro, Henry Karanja, Charles R J C Newton, Stephen A Ward

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Article in The Journal of infectious diseases, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Evelyn N GitauCentre for Geographic Medicine-Coast, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi.
Gilbert O Kokwaro
Henry Karanja
Charles R J C Newton
Stephen A Ward
Kenya Medical Research Institute · KELiverpool School of Tropical Medicine · GBUniversity of Nairobi · KE

Funding

Wellcome Trust 050533Wellcome Trust 092654Wellcome Trust 980074
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clinical signs and symptoms of cerebral malaria in children are nonspecific and are seen in other common encephalopathies in malaria-endemic areas. This makes accurate diagnosis difficult in resource-poor settings. Novel malaria-specific diagnostic and prognostic methods are needed. We have used 2 proteomic strategies to identify differentially expressed proteins in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid from children with a diagnosis of cerebral malaria, compared with those with a diagnosis of malaria-slide-negative acute bacterial meningitis and other nonspecific encephalopathies. Here we report the presence of differentially expressed proteins in cerebral malaria in both plasma and cerebrospinal fluid that could be used to better understand pathogenesis and help develop more-specific diagnostic methods. In particular, we report the expression of 2 spectrin proteins that have known Plasmodium falciparum-binding partners involved in the stability of the infected red blood cell, suppressing further invasion and possibly enhancing the red blood cell's ability to sequester in microvasculature.

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Blood ProteinsCerebrospinal Fluid ProteinsChildChild, PreschoolDiagnosis, DifferentialHumansInfantMalaria, CerebralMalaria, FalciparumMeningitis, BacterialPlasmodium falciparumProteomeProtozoan ProteinsTandem Mass SpectrometryBlood ProteinsCerebrospinal Fluid ProteinsProteomeProtozoan Proteinscerebral malariaP. falciparumplatelet activationproteomicsspectrin

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PMID23888081
PMCPMC3789566
OpenAlexW2130406993

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