Hyperreactive malarial splenomegaly in expatriates

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 24-29

  Singh, Ranjan K ^a,b  

^a District Hospital Daltonganj   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Expatriates; Hyperreactive malarial splenomegaly; Malaria; Splenectomy; Tropical splenomegaly

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CHLOROQUINE; FANSIDAR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MEFLOQUINE; PENICILLIN G; PROGUANIL; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY; PYRIMETHAMINE; QUININE; STREPTOCOCCUS VACCINE; SULFADOXINE;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG RESPONSE; FEVER; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOMA; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYCYTHEMIA VERA; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETICULOENDOTHELIOSIS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; THALASSEMIA; TRAVEL; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIMALARIALS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALARIA; SPLENOMEGALY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 33845330589     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2006.01.018     Document Type: Article

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