Estimation of the sequestered parasite load in severe malaria patients using both host and parasite markers

Parasitology

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 449-458

  Ochola, L B ^a,b   Marsh, K ^b,c   Lowe, B ^b   Gal, S ^c   Pluschke, G ^a   Smith, T ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biochemical and parasitological markers; Plasmodium falciparum; Sequestration; Statistical models

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; DNA; HISTIDINE RICH PROTEIN 2; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PROTEIN; QUININE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYNAMICS; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOCRIT; HOST; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALARIA; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION DENSITY; QUININE; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR, TYPE II; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

CINCHONA PUBESCENS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 32044475076     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182005008085     Document Type: Article

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