Serum vitamin A levels in patients with ocular lesions attributable to non-complicated malaria in the Brazilian Amazon region

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 485-488

  Melo, A M N ^a   de Carvalho, R A C ^b   Figueiredo, J F C ^a   Vannucchi, H ^a   Jordao Junior A ^a   Rodrigues, M L V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b State of Amazonas Faculty of Med   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon; Brazil; Malaria; Ocular lesions; Vitamin A

Indexed keywords

RETINOL;

ARTICLE; BIOMICROSCOPY; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAZIL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; RETINA DISEASE; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; SLIT LAMP; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EYE INFECTIONS, PARASITIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

EID: 3242674533     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2003.12.007     Document Type: Article

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