Depression of platelet counts in apparently healthy children with asymptomatic malaria infection in a Nigerian metropolitan city

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Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 469-471

  Jeremiah, Zaccheaus Awortu ^a,c   Uko, Emmanuel Kufre ^b  

^a RIVERS STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR   (Nigeria)

^c NONE   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic malaria; Nigeria; Platelet count

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENSITY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; NIGERIA; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

AGE FACTORS; BLOOD PLATELETS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; NIGERIA; PLATELET COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 34548336610     PISSN: 09537104     EISSN: 13691635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09537100701194871     Document Type: Article

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