Loss of red blood cell-complement regulatory proteins and increased levels of circulating immune complexes are associated with severe malarial anemia

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 522-525

  Stoute, José A ^a,b   Odindo, Alfred O ^a   Owuor, Boaz O ^a   Mibei, Erick K ^a   Opollo, Malachi O ^a   Waitumbi, John N ^a  

^a KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^b Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGULATOR PROTEIN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANEMIA; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; ANIMALS; ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ANTIGENS, CD55; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037312529     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/367712     Document Type: Article

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