ABO-blood-group types and protection against severe, Plasmodium falciparum malaria

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 119-124

  Pathirana, S L ^a   Alles, H K ^a   Bandara, S ^b   Phone Kyaw, M ^a   Perera, M K ^a   Wickremasinghe, A R ^c   Mendis, K N ^a   Handunnetti, S M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^b Anuradhapura General Hospital   (Sri Lanka)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP AB; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; BLOOD GROUP O; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; UNCOMPLICATED MALARIA FALCIPARUM;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SRI LANKA;

EID: 15344340792     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485905X19946     Document Type: Article

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