Pigmented monocytes are negative correlates of protection against severe and complicated malaria in Ugandan children

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 724-729

  Mujuzi, Godfrey ^a   Magambo, Betty ^a   Okech, Brenda ^a   Egwang, Thomas G ^a  

^a Med Biotech Laboratories Uganda   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; MALARIA VACCINE; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; UGANDA; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MONOCYTE; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALARIA VACCINES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MONOCYTES; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UGANDA;

EID: 33745022368     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2006.74.724     Document Type: Article

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