Plasmodium vivax malaria presenting with severe thrombocytopenia

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 120-121

  Aggarwal, Anju ^a,b   Rath, Suman ^a   Shashiraj, ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; PREDNISOLONE; PRIMAQUINE; QUININE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GINGIVA BLEEDING; HEMATEMESIS; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALE; PETECHIA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; RASH; RIGOR; SCHOOL CHILD; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

CHILD; HUMANS; INDIA; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 20444413739     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmh107     Document Type: Article

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