Clinical case definitions for malaria: Clinical malaria associated with very low parasite densities in African infants

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 527-531

  McGuinness, David ^a   Koram, Kwadwo ^b   Bennett, Steve ^c   Wagner, Gillian ^a   Nkrumah, Francis ^b   Riley, Eleanor ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Ghana Legon   (Ghana)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Clinical case definitions; Ghana; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; DENSITY; FEMALE; FEVER; GHANA; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0031734378     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(98)90902-6     Document Type: Article

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