Clinical features and outcome of severe malaria in gambian children

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 577-587

  Waller, D ^a,b,c,d,e   Krishna, S ^a,b,c,d,e   Crawley, J ^a,b,c,d,e   Miller, K ^a,b,c,d,e   Nosten, F ^a,b,c,d,e   Chapman, D ^a,b,c,d,e   Ter Kuile, F O ^a,b,c,d,e   Craddock, C ^a,b,c,d,e   Berry, C ^a,b,c,d,e   Holloway, P A H ^a,b,c,d,e   Brewster, D ^a,b,c,d,e   Greenwood, B M ^a,b,c,d,e   White, N J ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMETHER; BILIRUBIN; CALCIUM; CHLOROQUINE; CREATININE; CYTOKINE; LACTIC ACID; PHENOBARBITAL; PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM; PYRUVIC ACID; QUININE; QUININE SULFATE; URATE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; BRAIN MALARIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; GAMBIA; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GAMBIA; HUMAN; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0029166522     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/21.3.577     Document Type: Article

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