The association of pallor with haemoglobin concentration and mortality in severe malaria

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 663-669

  Mabeza, G F ^a,b,f   Biemba, G ^a   Brennan, A G ^c   Moyo, V M ^d   Thuma, P E ^a   Gordeuk, V R ^e  

^a Macha Mission Hospital   (Zambia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c Health Sciences Cent   (United States)

^d UNIV OF ZIMBABWE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Zimbabwe)

^e GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f Northwick Park and St Mark's Hospitals   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; FANSIDAR; HEMOGLOBIN; QUININE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN MALARIA; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PALLOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANTIMALARIALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEMOGLOBINOMETRY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; PALLOR; QUININE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ZIMBABWE;

CINCHONA PUBESCENS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032322644     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034989859122     Document Type: Article

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