Clinical overlap between malaria and severe pneumonia in African children in hospital

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 658-662

  English, Michael ^a,b   Punt, Jeanine ^a   Mwangi, Isaiah ^a   McHugh, Kieran ^b   Marsh, Kevin ^a,b  

^a KEMRI Clinical Research Centre   (Kenya)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory infection; Children; Kenya; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; LACTIC ACID; OXYGEN; UREA;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; OXYGEN SATURATION; PNEUMONIA; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; UREA BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 12644288325     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(96)90423-X     Document Type: Article

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