Parvovirus infection, malaria, and anemia in the tropics - A new hidden enemy?

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 141-142

  Pasvol, Geoffrey ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS DNA;

ANEMIA; BLEEDING; EDITORIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ERYTHROPOIESIS; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY; MALARIA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PARVOVIRUS INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; TROPICS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANEMIA; HUMANS; MALARIA; PARVOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PARVOVIRUS B19, HUMAN; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 33746168600     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/505086     Document Type: Editorial

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