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Biomarkers in blood could aid diagnosis of crippling, often fatal forms of malaria
Published in Physician Law Weekly, December 24th, 2008
The findings may let doctors detect earlier two crippling malaria variations – one that develops in the placenta of pregnant women affecting countless unborn children, the other, cerebral malaria, that develops in the brain's blood vessels – malaria's most deadly form.
The double breakthrough will be described at annual meetings of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, Dec. 7-11, 2008.
Over-activation of body's natural defences implicated in...
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