Moving toward hematological predictors of disease severity in malaria: Going with the flow

American Journal of Hematology

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 225-226

  Shankar, Anuraj H ^a   Fawzi, Wafaie W ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOZOIN; IRON; LACTIC ACID; NITRIC OXIDE; NUCLEIC ACID;

ANEMIA; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEVER; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HYPERLACTATEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IRON METABOLISM; IRON STORAGE; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MALARIA; MICROSCOPY; MONOCYTE; MORTALITY; NOTE; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RETINOPATHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLENOMEGALY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ERYTHROCYTES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEMEPROTEINS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALARIA; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77950410243     PISSN: 03618609     EISSN: 10968652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajh.21690     Document Type: Note

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