Abstract
Malaria is a serious disease, caused by the parasite of the genus Plasmodium, which was responsible to 600,000 deaths in 2013. Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is one of the main clinical complications in severe malaria. The murine model DBA/2 reproduces the clinical signs of ARDS in humans, when infected with Plasmodium berghei ANKA. It was demonstrated that the enzyme heme oxy…