Measurement of ovalocyte frequency in peripheral blood smears in defining ovalocytosis in Papua New Guinea

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 809-817

  Sapak, Peter ^a,b   Sleigh, Adrian ^a   Williams, Gail ^b   Peter, Wilfred ^c   Ginny, Meza ^c   Waranduo, Markus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA   (Papua New Guinea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

Melanesian; Ovalocytosis; Papua New Guinea; Red cell morphology; South east Asian Ovalocytosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; ELLIPTOCYTOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE SHAPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALARIA; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; STAINING; TECHNIQUE;

DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ELLIPTOCYTOSIS, HEREDITARY; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 0031724772     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1998.00308.x     Document Type: Article

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