Full blood count and haemozoin-containing leukocytes in children with malaria: Diagnostic value and association with disease severity

Malaria Journal

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Hänscheid, Thomas ^a,b   Längin, Matthias ^a,c   Lell, Bertrand ^a,c   Pötschke, Marc ^a,c   Oyakhirome, Sunny ^a,c   Kremsner, Peter G ^a,c   Grobusch, Martin P ^a,d  

^a ALBERT SCHWEITZER HOSPITAL   (Gabon)

^b INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR JOÃO LOBO ANTUNES   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOZOIN; PIGMENT; HEMOPROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEVER; FILM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GABON; GIEMSA STAIN; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MONOCYTE; PHAGOCYTE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GABON; HEMEPROTEINS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKOCYTES; MALARIA; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 47149092605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-7-109     Document Type: Article

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