Hematologic values among Warao Indians with tuberculosis from the Orinoco delta of Venezuela

Acta Cientifica Venezolana

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 247-253

  Araujo, Zaida ^a   Fernández de Larrea, Carlos ^a   López, Diana ^a   Fandiño, Cecil ^a   Chirinos, Merlin ^b   Convit, Jacinto ^c   Debora, Iraida ^c   de Waard, Jacobus ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b Banco Metropolitano de Sangre del Distrito Capital   (Venezuela)

^c INSTITUTO DE BIOMEDICINA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Concentration of median corpuscular hemoglobin; Creole; Hemoglobin; Tuberculosis; Warao

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE DISORDER; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INDIAN; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MONOCYTE; MONOCYTOSIS; NEUTROPHIL; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POPULATION RESEARCH; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TUBERCULOSIS; VENEZUELA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HEMOGLOBIN A; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; REFERENCE VALUES; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; VENEZUELA;

EID: 18744396090     PISSN: 00015504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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