Renal involvement in Gambian children with cerebral or mild malaria

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 390-394

  Weber, Martin W ^a,b,e   Zimmermann, Ulrich ^b   Van Hensbroek, Michael Boele ^a,c   Frenkel, Jost ^a,c   Palmer, Ayo ^d   Ehrich, Jochen H H ^b   Greenwood, Brian M ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital Gambia   (Gambia)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Creatinine; Kidney; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Proteinuria

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALPHA 1 MICROGLOBULIN; CREATININE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; TRANSFERRIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GAMBIA; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; PROTEINURIA;

ALPHA-GLOBULINS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CREATININE; FEMALE; FEVER; GAMBIA; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFANT; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALARIA; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; SERUM ALBUMIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 0033016650     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1999.00409.x     Document Type: Article

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