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This work was supported by the US National Institutes of Health (RO1 AO34969) and The Wellcome Trust (042390/Z/94). W.F. is partly supported by the US National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health (CA 90301). Many clinicians provided patient care (see Supplementary Note online). For conducting the autopsies, we thank mortuary attendants D. Kotokwa and W. Namanya, and pathologists M. Appleton, D. Barrowcliff, R. Bazinet, D. Connor, T. Kovan, F. MacInnes, H. Manz, D. Milner, A. Oviedo, U. Mahadeva, E. Pollina, C. Richards, C. Richert, L. Stein, R. Tozer, G. Vischer and V. White. We thank the patients' families for the privilege of conducting these autopsies, A. Indurkhya for early statistical input, S. Rogerson for reviewing the manuscript and P. Marsh for nutritional support.

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  1. Wenjiang J Fu
    Present address: Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843, USA

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824, Michigan, USA
    Terrie E Taylor
  2. Blantyre Malaria Project, PO Box 30096, Blantyre, 3, Malawi
    Terrie E Taylor & Nedson G Fosiko
  3. Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824, Michigan, USA
    Wenjiang J Fu
  4. South Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust, Pathology Laboratory, Lakin Road, Warwick, CV34 5BH, UK
    Richard A Carr
  5. Black Hills Pathology, 413 Lilly Road NE, Olympia, 98506, Washington, USA
    Richard O Whitten
  6. Department of Pathology, C-3321 Medical Center North, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, 37232-2561, Tennessee, USA
    Jeffrey G Mueller
  7. Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology, Tumaini University/KCMC, PO Box 225, Moshi, Tanzania
    Susan Lewallen
  8. Department of Histopathology, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, 3, Malawi
    N George Liomba
  9. Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, PO Box 30096, Blantyre, 3, Malawi
    Malcolm E Molyneux
  10. Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, L3 5QA, UK
    Malcolm E Molyneux

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  1. Terrie E Taylor
  2. Wenjiang J Fu
  3. Richard A Carr
  4. Richard O Whitten
  5. Jeffrey G Mueller
  6. Nedson G Fosiko
  7. Susan Lewallen
  8. N George Liomba
  9. Malcolm E Molyneux

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Correspondence toTerrie E Taylor.

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Taylor, T., Fu, W., Carr, R. et al. Differentiating the pathologies of cerebral malaria by postmortem parasite counts.Nat Med 10, 143–145 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm986

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