Exploring the relationship between chronic undernutrition and asymptomatic malaria in Ghanaian children

Malaria Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Crookston, Benjamin T ^a   Alder, Stephen C ^a   Boakye, Isaac ^b   Merrill, Ray M ^c   Amuasi, John H ^b   Porucznik, Christina A ^a   Stanford, Joseph B ^a   Dickerson, Ty T ^d   Dearden, Kirk A ^e   Hale, Devon C ^a   Sylverken, Justice ^b   Snow, Bryce S ^a   Osei Akoto, Alex ^f   Ansong, Daniel ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KOMFO ANOKYE TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Ghana)

^c BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PRIMARY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MALNUTRITION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPLEEN SIZE; STUNTING SYNDROME; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; GROWTH DISORDER; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

VIRUS DNA;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; GHANA; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MALNUTRITION; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77949506012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-9-39     Document Type: Article

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