NON-O ABO BLOOD GROUP GENOTYPES DIFFER IN THEIR ASSOCIATIONS WITH PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM ROSETTING AND SEVERE MALARIA.

Non-O ABO blood group genotypes differ in their associations with Plasmodium falciparum rosetting and severe malaria.

Blood group O is associated with protection against severe malaria and reduced size and stability of P.falciparum-host red blood cell (RBC) rosettes compared to non-O blood groups.Whether the non-O blood groups encoded by the specific ABO genotypes AO, BO, AA, BB and AB differ in their associations with severe malaria and rosetting is unknown.The A

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Immunophenotypic characteristics of brain metastases

Up to 15% of patients with secondary brain tumors of unknown primary are admitted to a neurosurgery department.Identification of a primary tumor site on the basis of surgical material immunophenotyping in routine clinical practice has a significant potential; however, this requires systematization.Objective: to detect the primary focus of brain car

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A Re-Examination of the Sources of Inspiration of Ethiopian Concentric Prayer Houses: Tracing an Architectural Concept from the Roman and Byzantine East to Islamic and Crusader Jerusalem to Solomonic Ethiopia

During the first millennium of Christian presence in Ethiopia (from the fourth century), church architecture was first in accordance with, and later partially based on, the basilica plan.Circa the early sixteenth century, a new and unique church plan appeared, circular, concentric, and with a square sanctuary, and became the dominant church plan in

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