Severe Plasmodium vivax malaria, Brazilian Amazon

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1611-1614

  Alexandre, Márcia A ^a,b,c   Ferreira, Cynthia O ^a   Siqueira, André M ^b,c   Magalhães, Belisa L ^b   Mourão, Maria Paula G ^a,b,c   Lacerda, Marcus V ^a,b,c   Alecrim, Maria das Graças C ^b,c  

^a FUNDAÇÃO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL DR HEITOR VIEIRA DOURADO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE NILTON LINS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; PRIMAQUINE;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAZIL; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG FATALITY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS A; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; JAUNDICE; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; MALE; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN TENSION; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SHOCK; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMALARIALS; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLOROQUINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMAQUINE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958611301     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1610.100685     Document Type: Article

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