Iron, butnot folic acid, combined with effective antimalarial therapy promotes haematological recovery inAfrican children after acute falciparum malaria

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 672-676

  Van Hensbroek, Michaël Boele ^a,b   Morris Jones, Stephen ^a   Meisner, Sarah ^a   Jaffar, Shabbar ^a   Bayo, Lang ^a   Dackour, Raduwan ^a   Phillips, Christine ^a   Greenwood, Brian M ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children; Chloroquine; Folic acid; Iron; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Pyrimethamine sulfadoxine; The Gambia

Indexed keywords

ANTIANEMIC AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CHLOROQUINE; FANSIDAR; FOLIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON;

AFRICA; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAMBIA; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLOROQUINE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; IRON; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0029557546     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0035-9203(95)90438-7     Document Type: Article

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