The clinical significance of cerebrospinal fluid levels of kynurenine pathway metabolites and lactate in severe malaria

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 185, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 650-656

  Medana, Isabelle M ^a   Tran, Tinh Hien ^b   Day, Nicholas P ^a   Nguyen, Hoan Phu ^b   Mai, Nguyen Thi Hoang ^b   Ly, Van Chu'ong ^b   Chau, Tran Thi Hong ^b   Taylor, Anne ^a   Salahifar, Houta ^c   Stocker, Roland ^c   Smythe, George ^d   Turner, Gareth D H ^a   Farrar, Jeremy ^a,b   White, Nicholas J ^a,b   Hunt, Nicholas H ^e  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre for Tropical Diseases Vietnam   (Viet Nam)

^c HEART RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KYNURENIC ACID; LACTIC ACID; PICOLINIC ACID; QUINOLINIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; COMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VIET NAM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; HUMANS; KYNURENINE; LACTATES; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; MIDDLE AGED; PICOLINIC ACIDS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; QUININE; QUINOLINIC ACID; SESQUITERPENES;

EID: 0036499022     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/339009     Document Type: Article

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