Higher resistance to Plasmodium falciparum infection in patients with homozygous sickle cell disease in Western Kenya

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 568-571

  Aluoch, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Kenya; Malaria; Sickle cell anaemia; Sickle red blood cells

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN S;

ARTICLE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFECTION RESISTANCE; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MORTALITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; VICTORIA;

EID: 0030831329     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1997.d01-322.x     Document Type: Article

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