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Publication Open Access Coma in fatal adult human malaria is not caused by cerebral oedema(2011-09-17) Medana, Isabelle M.; Day, Nicholas P.J.; Navakanit Sachanonta; นวขนิษฐ์ สัจจานนท์; Mai, Nguyen T.H.; Dondorp, Arjen M.; Emsri Pongponratn; เอี่ยมศรี พงศ์พนรัตน์; Hien, Tran T.; White, Nicholas J.; Turner, Gareth D.H.; Turner, Gareth D.H.; Mahidol University. Faculty of Tropical Medicine. Mahidol-Oxford Research Unit.; Mahidol University. Faculty of Tropical Medicine. Department of Tropical Pathology.BACKGROUND: The role of brain oedema in the pathophysiology of cerebral malaria is controversial. Coma associated with severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria is multifactorial, but associated with histological evidence of parasitized erythrocyte... (P = .02). CONCLUSIONS: Histological evidence of cerebral oedema or immunohistochemical evidence of localised loss of vascular integrity did not correlate with the occurrence of pre-mortem coma in adults with fatal falciparum malaria. EnhancedPublication Open Access The duration of Plasmodium falciparum infections(2014) Ashley, Elizabeth A; White, Nicholas J; Mahidol University. Faculty of Tropical Medicine. Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research UnitPlasmodium vivax and Plasmodium ovale are often considered the malaria parasites best adapted to long-term survival in the human host because of their latent exo-erythrocytic forms. The prevailing opinion until the middle of the last century... was that the maximum duration of Plasmodium falciparum infections was less than two years. Case reports and series investigating blood donors following accidental malaria infection of blood transfusion recipients and other sporadic malaria cases in non-endemicPublication Open Access Auditory assessment of patients with acute uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria treated with three-day mefloquine-artesunate on the north-western border of Thailand.(2008-11-06) Carrara, Verena I; Phyo, Aung P; Nwee, Paw; Soe, Ma; Htoo, Hsar; Jaruwan Arunkamomkiri; Pratap Singhasivanon; ประตาป สิงหศิวานนท์; Nosten, François; Nosten, François; Mahidol University. Faculty of Tropical Medicine.; Mahidol University. Faculty of Tropical Medicine. Shoklo Malaria Research Unit.standard 3-day oral dose of artesunate (4 mg/kg/day) combined with mefloquine (25 mg/kg) in patients with acute uncomplicated falciparum malaria treated at the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, on the Thai-Burmese border. A complete auditory evaluation