Plasma glutamine levels and falciparum malaria

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 616-618

  Cowan, G ^a   Planche, T ^b   Agbenyega, T ^c   Bedu Addo, G ^c   Owusu Ofori, A ^c   Adebe Appiah, J ^c   Agranoff, D ^b   Woodrow, C ^b   Castell, L ^d   Elford, B ^a   Krishna, S ^b  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KOMFO ANOKYE TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Ghana)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Ghana; Glutamine; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMINE;

AMINO ACID DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CONVALESCENCE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ERYTHROPOIESIS; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MORTALITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 12944291591     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(99)90070-6     Document Type: Article

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