Thrombocytopenia in Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax and mixed infection malaria: A study from Bikaner (Northwestern India)

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Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 623-627

  Kochar, Dhanpat Kumar ^a   Das, Ashis ^b   Kochar, Abhishek ^c   Middha, Sheetal ^c   Acharya, Jyoti ^c   Tanwar, Gajanand Singh ^c   Gupta, Anjana ^c   Pakalapati, Deepak ^b   Garg, Shilpi ^b   Saxena, Vishal ^b   Subudhi, Amit Kumar ^b   Boopathi, P A ^b   Sirohi, Parmendra ^c   Kochar, Sanjay Kumar ^c  

^a Kothari Medical and Research Institute ^*  (India)

^b BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

^c S P MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Epistaxis; Mixed infection; P. falciparum; P. vivax; Platelet; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADULT; ANIMALS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; INDIA; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLATELET COUNT; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 78149442189     PISSN: 09537104     EISSN: 13691635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09537104.2010.505308     Document Type: Article

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