A quantitative ultrastructural study of renal pathology in fatal<i>Plasmodium falciparum</i>malaria

Abstract

Malaria-associated renal failure is a common and serious complication of severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria in this population, associated with acute tubular injury rather than glomerulonephritis, and linked to localization of host monocytes in the kidney as well as sequestration of PRBCs.