Updated Dec 16, 2020 | 17:13 IST
They said the findings were corroborated by significantly elevated levels of specific molecules in the blood which indicate oxygen-deprivation.
100-year-old mystery of how malaria affects brain solved by team co-led by Indian scientists | Photo Credit: iStock Images
New Delhi: Using brain imaging techniques, scientists, including those from The Center for the Study of Complex Malaria in Odisha, have unravelled the century old mystery of how malaria affects the brain, an advance which reveals how the deadly disease causes different outcomes in adults and children.
According to the researchers, cerebral malaria is a severe, life-threatening complication of infection with the Plasmodium falciparum parasite that can infect humans through the bite of Anopheles mosquitoes.