Sickle-cell disease in sub-Saharan Africa - Past, present and future status

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 982-983

  Aluoch, Joash ^a,b   Jacobs, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^b Haematology Clinic Wynberg   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ETHNOLOGY; FORECASTING; GENETICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; LETTER; PREVALENCE; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; FORECASTING; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0030209305     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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