Prognostic implications of white cell differential count and white cell morphology in Malaria

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 218-220

  Jadhav, Uday M ^a   Singhvi, R ^a   Shah, R ^a  

^a BOMBAY HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Band cells; P. falciparum malaria; P. vivax malaria; Toxic granules

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; BRAIN MALARIA; CELL GRANULE; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0345119184     PISSN: 00223859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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