Are studies on severe malaria still possible?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 850-851

  Shanks, G Dennis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN ARMY MALARIA INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISIN; ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; CYTOKINE; PLACEBO; ROSIGLITAZONE;

BED NET; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIMALARIALS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; RESEARCH; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 70049102317     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/605432     Document Type: Note

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