Management of severe malaria: Interventions and controversies

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 211-240

  Pasvol, Geoffrey ^a,b  

^a NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER; ARTESUNATE; CLINDAMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; QUINIDINE GLUCONATE; QUININE;

ACIDOSIS; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANEMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRAIN MALARIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVULSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; LUNG INJURY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MYCOSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROPHYLAXIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SEX RATIO; SHOCK; SIDE EFFECT; SPLEEN RUPTURE; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 13444311918     PISSN: 08915520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.idc.2004.10.007     Document Type: Review

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