[Human malaria: dysglobulinemia-hypocholesterolemia syndrome]

Med Trop (Mars). 1990 Jan-Mar;50(1):91-5.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Comparative study of protein and lipid parameters within a homogenous sample of 144 non-immune subjects having stayed for four months in Central Africa, suggests a dysglobulinemia more significant in the infected group. This dysglobulinemia affects in particular the IgM which are negatively correlated with cholesterol, positively with apoproteins A2 and H.D.L. Such a peculiar profiling involving immunoglobulins, apoproteins and cholesterol is rapidly regressive after stopping exposure to parasitic risk. It appears as an adaptation syndrome--or resistance--to tropical environment.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adaptation, Physiological
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Apoproteins / analysis
  • Cholesterol, HDL / blood*
  • Dysgammaglobulinemia / blood*
  • Dysgammaglobulinemia / immunology
  • France / ethnology
  • Gabon
  • Humans
  • Immunoglobulin M / analysis
  • Malaria / blood*
  • Malaria / immunology
  • Military Personnel

Substances

  • Apoproteins
  • Cholesterol, HDL
  • Immunoglobulin M