Interaction of malaria with a common form of severe thalassemia in an Asian population

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 44, 2009, Pages 18716-18721

  O'Donnell, A ^a,b   Premawardhena, A ^c,d   Arambepola, M ^d   Samaranayake, R ^d   Allen, S J ^b   Peto, T E A ^b   Fisher, C A ^b   Cook, J ^e   Corran, P H ^e   Olivieri, Nancy F ^f   Weatherall, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^d District Hospital   (Sri Lanka)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; DNA;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SICKLE CELL BETA THALASSEMIA; SPLENECTOMY; SRI LANKA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BETA-THALASSEMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MALARIA; PHENOTYPE; PILOT PROJECTS; PREVALENCE; SPLENECTOMY; SRI LANKA;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 73249123070     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0910142106     Document Type: Article

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