It may suggest that systemic low-grade inflammation in patients with mTBI reflects disease severity not obviously linked to neuroradiological findings, a fact reported in other diseases such as febrile status epilepticus and brain swelling in cerebral malaria.39,40 Likewise, more severe injury indicated by lower GCS score was negatively associated with eotaxin and MIP-1β. Here, CCL11 is linked to cerebral malaria.