α+-Thalassemia protects children against disease caused by other infections as well as malaria

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 94, Issue 26, 1997, Pages 14736-14741

  Allen, S J ^a,b   O'Donnell, A ^a,b   Alexander, N D E ^b   Alpers, M P ^b   Peto, T E A ^a   Clegg, J B ^a   Weatherall, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOLOGY; CASE CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD SURVIVAL; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; HEALTH; HEMATOLOGICAL EFFECTS; HEMIC SYSTEM; INFECTIONS; LENGTH OF LIFE; MALARIA; MELANESIA; MORTALITY; OCEANIA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PARASITIC DISEASES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; STUDIES; SURVIVORSHIP;

ALPHA-THALASSEMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; RISK;

EID: 0031474610     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.26.14736     Document Type: Article

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