Post-malaria neurological syndrome

Lancet

Volumn 348, Issue 9032, 1996, Pages 917-921

  Mai, Nguyen Thi Hoang ^a   Day, Nicholas P J ^a,b   Chuong, Ly Van ^a   Waller, Deborah ^a,b   Phu, Nguyen Hoan ^a   Bethell, Delia B ^a,b   Hien, Tran Tinh ^a   White, Nicholas J ^a,b  

^a CHO QUAN HOSPITAL   (Viet Nam)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; MEFLOQUINE; QUININE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONVULSION; DISEASE DURATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RISK; SYMPTOM; THAILAND; TREMOR; VIET NAM;

EID: 0030571205     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)01409-2     Document Type: Article

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