Total serum cholesterol determination can provide understanding of parasite burden in patients with visceral leishmaniasis infection

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 411, Issue 23-24, 2010, Pages 2112-2113

  Lal, Chandra S ^a   Verma, Neena ^a   Rabidas, Vidya N ^a   Ranjan, Alok ^a   Pandey, Krishna ^a   Verma, Rakesh B ^a   Singh, Dharmendra ^a   Kumar, Sanjay ^a   Das, Pradeep ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; CHILD; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COLORIMETRY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; LETTER; LIPID ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLESTEROL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957754011     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2010.08.041     Document Type: Letter

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