Malaria causing nephrotic syndrome -

It would appear that quaan malaria causes an immune complex nephritis in some individuals that, once established, is sustained by mechanisms not yet fully explained but which may involve an autoimmune process. Evidence to suppo an immunologic pathogenesis of the renal lesions is provided by the presence of immunoglobulin, complement (C3) and quaan malarial antigen in biopsy specimens studied by immunofluorescence microscopy