Type 2 diabetes mellitus and increased risk for malaria infection

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1601-1604

  Danquah, Ina ^a   Bedu Addo, George ^b   Mockenhaupt, Frank P ^a  

^a Institute of Tropical Medicine   (Germany)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; METFORMIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GHANA; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; RISK; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958617190     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1610.100399     Document Type: Article

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