Aetiologic factors and clinical features associated with thrombocytopenia in Cameroonese adults: The importance of Plasmodium falciparum malaria;Les étiologies et présentations cliniques des thrombopénies chez les adultes Camerounais: Place du paludisme à Plasmodium falciparum

Cahiers Sante

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 331-335

  Mbanya, Dora ^a   Tapko, Jean Baptiste ^a   Azowe, François ^a   Kaptue, Lazare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLEEDING TIME; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CAMEROON; CLINICAL FEATURE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FILM; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PARASITE SERODIAGNOSIS; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PETECHIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; SCREENING TEST; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAMEROON; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMORRHAGE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

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