| AUC | Area Under the Curve |
| BCS | Blantyre Coma Score |
| CM | Cerebral Malaria |
| CPDA | Citrate phosphate dextrose adenine |
| CSF | Cerebrospinal fluid |
| ELISA | Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay |
| Hb | Hemoglobin |
| HPLC | High Pressure Liquid Chromatography |
| ICAM | Intercellular-Adhesion-Molecule-1 |
| IFN-γ | Interferon-gamma |
| TNF-α | Tumor-Necrosis-Factor-alpha |
| iRBCs | Infected red blood cells |
| MCH | Mean Cell Hemoglobin |
| NO | Nitric oxide |
| Plasmodium falciparum | P. falciparum |
| ROS | Reactive oxygen species |
| ROC | Receiver Operating Characteristic |
| RNS | Reactive nitrogen species |
| RIA | Radioimmunoassay |
| SNCM | Severe non-cerebral malaria |
| Th-1 | T helper cell-1 |
| TMB | 3,3′,5,5′-Tetramethylbenzidine |
| VGM | Mean Globular Volume |
| WHO | World Health Organization |