Immune Cell Type Controls Onset And Course Of Severe Malaria

Friday, May 1, 2009 - 11:21 in Health & Medicine

Scientists have determined that a subset of immune cells may cause malaria patients to contract the severe form of the disease, suffering worse symptoms. The researchers found that patients with the severe form of malaria have a specific type of cell in their body that people with uncomplicated disease do not.

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