Research priorities in the management of severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria in children

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 95-108

  Idro, R ^a,b   Aketch, S ^a   Gwer, S ^a   Newton, C R J C ^a,c   Maitland, K ^a,d  

^a KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Uganda)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMETHER; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ARTEMISININ; ARTESUNATE; CINCHONA ALKALOID; CINCHONINE; ELECTROLYTE; QUINIDINE; QUININE;

ABSCESS; ANEMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; EPILEPTIC STATE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INJECTION PAIN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALARIA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MORTALITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SHOCK;

ACIDOSIS; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANEMIA; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PROGNOSIS; RESEARCH; SEIZURES; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

ARTESUNATE; CINCHONA; CINCHONA PUBESCENS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 33644643237     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485906X91459     Document Type: Review

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