Burden, features, and outcome of neurological involvement in acute falciparum malaria in Kenyan children

JAMA

Volumn 297, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 2232-2240

  Idro, Richard ^a,b,h   Ndiritu, Moses ^a   Ogutu, Bernhards ^a,c   Mithwani, Sadik ^a   Maitland, Kathryn ^a,d   Berkley, James ^a,e   Crawley, Jane ^a   Fegan, Gregory ^a,f   Bauni, Evasius ^a   Peshu, Norbert ^a   Marsh, Kevin ^a,e   Neville, Brian ^g   Newton, Charles ^a,g   Ndiritu, Messrs ^a  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^c KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^d WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGITATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; CAPILLARY FLOW; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE DURATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MORTALITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTRATION; SEIZURE; ACUTE DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; KENYA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PHENOTYPE; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34249660688     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.297.20.2232     Document Type: Article

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