TABLE 3.
Parasitemia in different organs as determined by electron microscopy
| Case | Diagnosisa | Parastemia (%)
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spleen
|
Peripheral blood (total)b | Brain (total) | ||||
| Total | K+ | K− | ||||
| Malaria 16 | CM | 43.6 | 30 | 13.6 | 18 | 77 |
| Malaria 17 | CM | 37.6 | 36.6 | 1.3 | 2.5 | 61 |
| Malaria 18 | CM | 6.6 | 6.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0 |
| Malaria 19 | NCM | 1.6 | 1.8 | 0 | 0 | 23.1 |
| Malaria 20 | NCM | 2.5 | 0 | 2.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Malaria 21 | NCM | 28 | 18.3 | 9.9 | 20 | 56 |
a
CM, cerebral malaria; NCM, noncerebral malaria (other severe complications).
b
Peripheral blood parasite count within 4 h before death.