Haematological findings and endemicity of malaria in Gadap region

Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 112-116

  Malik, Ansar Mahmood ^a   Zaffar, Nusrat ^a   Ali, Nadir ^b   Malik, Aminah Mahmood ^a   Khan, Rubina ^a  

^a BAQAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b Malir National University of Medical Sciences   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium vivax; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKOCYTES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLATELET COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949784084     PISSN: 1022386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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