title: Malignant malaria and microangiopathies: merging mechanisms.
abstract: In this issue of Blood, Bridges and colleagues report that Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes are able to attach to the endothelial surface by binding platelet-decorated VWF strands in a CD36-dependent fashion, revealing a new mechanism for erythrocyte cytoadherence in malaria.(1).
authors.affiliation: Puget Sound Blood Center.
authors.forename: José A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: López