Mortality associated with severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria increases with age

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 158-160

  Olliaro, Piero ^a,b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FATALITY; HUMAN; MALARIA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; ADULT; ANIMAL; CHILD; HOSPITALIZATION; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 46349111524     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/589288     Document Type: Note

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