Short-term impact of an acute attack of malaria on the cognitive performance of schoolchildren living in a malaria-endemic area of Sri Lanka

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 633-639

  Fernando, Deepika ^a   de Silva, Damani ^a   Wickremasinghe, Rajitha ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SRI JAYEWARDENEPURA   (Sri Lanka)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Cognitive performance; Malaria; Schoolchildren; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; PRIMAQUINE;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MICROSCOPY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SRI LANKA; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACUTE DISEASE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SRI LANKA;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 22944473958     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(03)80093-7     Document Type: Article

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