Hypoglycaemia in severe malaria, clinical associations and relationship to quinine dosage

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ogetii, Gilbert N ^a   Akech, Samuel ^a   Jemutai, Julie ^a   Boga, Mwanamvua ^a   Kivaya, Esther ^a   Fegan, Greg ^a,b   Maitland, Kathryn ^a,c  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; CREATININE; FANSIDAR; GLUCOSE; POTASSIUM; QUININE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; COMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERPNEA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARASITEMIA; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SHOCK; WASTING SYNDROME; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; INFANT; MALARIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; QUININE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 78549235472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-334     Document Type: Article

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