thirty children acutely infected by plasmodium falciparum and suffering either benign uncomplicated malaria ( 17 cases ) , or cerebral malaria ( 13 cases ) , were investigated for t-cell number and subset distribution among peripheral blood mononuclear cells using okt3 , okt4 , and okt8 monoclonal antibodies , and for natural killer ( nk ) activity using k562 cells as targets .
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malaria
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cerebral malaria