Admission characteristics of severe malaria patients tested by qRT-PCR, Blantyre, Malawi, 2011.

Blood was sampled from participants who met the clinical case description of cerebral malaria during the malaria transmission season in 2011. All patients were from Blantyre, Malawi and surrounding areas. Parasitemia was measured by microscopy and qRT-PCR was performed on an RNA sample stored in trizol.