Malarial anaemia in African children associated with high oxygen-radical production

B Greve; P G Kremsner; B Lell; D Luckner; D Schmid

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(99)04761-3

Malarial anaemia in African children associated with high oxygen-radical production

Lancet. 2000 Jan 1;355(9197):40-1. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(99)04761-3.

Authors

B Greve, P G Kremsner, B Lell, D Luckner, D Schmid

PMID: 10615892
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(99)04761-3

Abstract

Reactive oxygen intermediates are thought to be involved in both the illness and parasite destruction during malaria. We measured innately increased reactive oxygen intermediate production in Gabonese children with severe malaria and anaemia.

Publication types

Comparative Study
Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Anemia / etiology
Anemia / metabolism*
Child
Female
Gabon
Humans
Luminescent Measurements
Malaria, Falciparum / complications
Malaria, Falciparum / metabolism*
Male
Reactive Oxygen Species / metabolism*
Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / metabolism

Substances

Reactive Oxygen Species
Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha