Possible prognostic significance of a brief rise in parasitaemia following quinine treatment of severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 388-390

  Gachot, Bertrand ^a,b   Houze, Sandrine ^a   Le Bras, Jacques ^a   Charmot, Guy ^a   Bédos, Jean Pierre ^a   Vachon, François ^a  

^a BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

Author keywords

Cerebral malaria; Course of parasitaemia; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; QUININE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MORTALITY; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; TIME;

CINCHONA PUBESCENS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0029837759     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(96)90517-9     Document Type: Article

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