Congenital malaria with atypical presentation: A case report from low transmission area in India

Malaria Journal

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Valecha, Neena ^a   Bhatia, Sunita ^b   Mehta, Sadhna ^b   Biswas, Sukla ^a   Dash, Aditya P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MALARIA RESEARCH   (India)

^b Kasturba Hospital and Swami Dayanand Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEVER; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT FEEDING; IRRITABILITY; JAUNDICE; MALARIA; MALE; MOTHER; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PREGNANCY; TREATMENT DURATION; ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CHLOROQUINE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC;

EID: 34247493189     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-6-43     Document Type: Article

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