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Cerebral malaria: When untreated malaria sends patients into coma

Dr George Biketi. [Courtesy]

Cerebral malaria is a severe neurological complication caused by parasitic infection of a bite by an anopheles female mosquito.

According to Dr George Biketi, the disease presents with a clinical syndrome characterised by coma and asexual forms of the parasite on peripheral blood smears.

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