An up-date on the prevalence of sickle cell trait in Eastern and Western Uganda

BMC Blood Disorders

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Okwi, Andrew L ^a   Byarugaba, Wilson ^b   Ndugwa, Christopher M ^a   Parkes, Arthur ^c   Ocaido, Michael ^a   Tumwine, James K ^a  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b KAMPALA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE ACETATE; HEMOGLOBIN S;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMOGLOBIN SC DISEASE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RECESSIVE GENE; SICKLE CELL TRAIT; UGANDA;

EID: 77953691630     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2326-10-5     Document Type: Article

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