Indicators of mortality in African adults with malaria

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 100, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 719-724

  Robinson, Tim ^a   Mosha, Frank ^b   Grainge, Matthew ^a   Madeley, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Low transmission; Malaria; Mortality; Prognostic value; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEGRO; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOM; TANZANIA; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALARIA; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PULMONARY EDEMA; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TANZANIA; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 33744968666     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2005.12.004     Document Type: Article

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