Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines Predominate in Acute Human Plasmodium knowlesi Infections

• Main Authors: Cox-Singh, J., Balbir, Singh, Daneshvar, C., Planche, Timothy, Parker-Williams, John, Sanjeev, Krishna
• Format: E-Article
• Language: English
• Published: Plos One Publishing 2011
• Subjects: Q Science (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/15806/1/Anti-Inflammatory%20Cytokines%20Predominate%20in%20Acute%20%28abstract%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/15806/; http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0020541; http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020541

Plasmodium knowlesi has entered the human population of Southeast Asia. Naturally acquired knowlesi malaria is newly described with relatively little available data, including data on the host response to infection. Therefore pre-treatment cytokine and chemokine profiles were determined for 94 P. kn...