Classification of clinical falciparum malaria and its use for the evaluation of chemosuppression in children under six years of age in Liberia, West Africa

Acta Tropica

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 105-115

  Hogh, Birthe ^a,b   Marbiah, Nuahn T ^a   Petersen, Eskild ^a,d   Dolopaye, Eugene ^a   Willcox, Michael ^c   Björkman, Anders ^d   Hanson, Aloysius P ^a   Gottschau, Adam ^e  

^a Liberia Institute for Biomedical Research   (Liberia)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c GÄVLE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Chemosuppression; Children; Clinical malaria; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CHLOROQUINE; PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LIBERIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MORBIDITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROPHYLAXIS;

ANEMIA; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLOROQUINE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LIBERIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; SEASONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPLENOMEGALY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0027260735     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0001-706X(93)90056-H     Document Type: Article

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