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- Self-reactivities to the non-erythroid alpha spectrin correlate with cerebral malaria in Gabonese childrenPublication . Guiyedi, V.; Chanseaud, Y.; Fesel, C.; Snounou, G.; Rousselle, J.C.; Lim, P.; Koko, J.; Namane, A.; Cazenave, P.A.; Kombila, M.; Pied, S.Hypergammaglobulinemia and polyclonal B-cell activation commonly occur in Plasmodium sp. infections. Some of the antibodies produced recognize self-components and are correlated with disease severity in P. falciparum malaria. However, it is not known whether some self-reactive antibodies produced during P. falciparum infection contribute to the events leading to cerebral malaria (CM). We show here a correlation between self-antibody responses to a human brain protein and high levels of circulating TNF alpha (TNFα), with the manifestation of CM in Gabonese children