Relation between severe malaria morbidity in children and level of Plasmodium falciparum transmission in Africa

Lancet

Volumn 349, Issue 9066, 1997, Pages 1650-1654

  Snow, Robert W ^a,b   Omumbo, Judy A ^a   Lowe, Brett ^b,c   Molyneux, Catherine S ^b,c   Obiero, Jacktone O ^b   Palmer, Ayo ^d   Weber, Martin W ^e   Pinder, Margaret ^e   Nahlen, Bernard ^c,f   Obonyo, Charles ^c   Newbold, Chris ^b   Gupta, Sunetra ^g   Marsh, Kevin ^b,c  

^a KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^d Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital Gambia   (Gambia)

^e MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^f CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^g Centers for Dis Contr and Prev ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AGE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXPOSURE; GAMBIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INFANT; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK; SEROLOGY;

EID: 0030923027     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)02038-2     Document Type: Article

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