Clinical significance of sequestration in adults with severe malaria

Transfusion Clinique et Biologique

Volumn 15, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 56-57

  Dondorp, A M ^a  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Artesunate; Levamisole; Orthogonal polarizing spectral imaging; PfHRP2; Plasmodium falciparum malaria; Sequestration

Indexed keywords

ARTESUNATE; LEVAMISOLE; QUININE;

ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MICROCIRCULATION; PARASITEMIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD36; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ARTEMISININS; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; QUININE;

EID: 49949152393     PISSN: 12467820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tracli.2008.04.013     Document Type: Article

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