Severe anaemia in Zambian children with Plasmodium falciparum malaria

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 9-16

  Biemba, Godfrey ^a,f   Dolmans, Dennis ^b   Thuma, Philip E ^a,c   Weiss, Günter ^d   Gordeuk, Victor R ^e  

^a Macha Mission Hospital   (Zambia)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MESSIAH COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^e GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f CMAZ   (Zambia)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Cerebral malaria; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Zambia

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ANAEMIA; CHILD HEALTH; MALARIA;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; ZAMBIA;

ANEMIA; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEMOGLOBINS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ZAMBIA;

ZAMBIA;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0033977876     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2000.00506.x     Document Type: Article

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