Thrombopoietin in Plasmodium falciparum malaria

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 534-536

  Kreil, Anna ^a   Wenisch, Christoph ^b   Brittenham, Gary ^c   Looareesuwan, Sornchai ^c   Peck Radosavljevic, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC); Malaria; Peripheral platelet count (PPC); Plasmodium falciparum; Thrombopoietin (TPO)

Indexed keywords

ARTESUNATE; CYTOKINE; THROMBOPOIETIN;

ARTICLE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLATELET COUNT; SESQUITERPENES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THROMBOPOIETIN;

EID: 0034044675     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2000.02096.x     Document Type: Article

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