Research Article

Predictive Criteria to Study the Pathogenesis of Malaria-Associated ALI/ARDS in Mice

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Breathing patterns and parasitemia could be used to group mice into two main clusters. Ward’s linkage cluster analysis illustrates the distance between the physiological cluster patterns in DBA/2 mice infected with P. berghei ANKA that developed ALI/ARDS and HP. Values were measured on the 7th DAI. The data are from 13 independent experiments; mice. Group 1 = 88.46% of individuals with ALI/ARDS and 11.53% with HP; group 2 = 57.77% of individuals with ALI/ARDS and 42.22% with HP; group 3 = 19.35% individuals with ALI/ARDS and 80.64% with HP; group 4 = 21.42% of individuals with ALI/ARDS and 78.57% with HP. ALI/ARDS: acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome; HP: hyperparasitemia.
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