Predicting the reduction of parasitaemia following exchange transfusion in severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria: Comparison of two mathematical formulae

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 489-492

  Kumar, S ^a   Kothari, S ^a   Karnad, D R ^a  

^a KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREDICTION; VAN DEN ENDE FORMULA; WILKINSON FORMULA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARASITEMIA; QUININE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0041846806     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/000349803225001364     Document Type: Article

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