Features and prognosis of severe malaria caused by plasmodium falciparum, plasmodium vivax and mixed plasmodium species in Papua New Guinean children

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Manning, Laurens ^a   Laman, Moses ^a,b   Law, Irwin ^b,e   Bona, Cathy ^b   Aipit, Susan ^b   Teine, David ^b   Warrell, Jonathan ^b   Rosanas Urgell, Anna ^b   Lin, Enmoore ^b   Kiniboro, Benson ^b   Vince, John ^c   Hwaiwhanje, Ilomo ^d   Karunajeewa, Harin ^a,f   Michon, Pascal ^b,g   Siba, Peter ^b   Mueller, Ivo ^b,h,i   Davis, Timothy M E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA   (Papua New Guinea)

^d Goroka Base Hospital   (Papua New Guinea)

^e National Tuberculosis Programme   (Laos)

^f WESTERN HEALTH   (Australia)

^g Divine Word University   (Papua New Guinea)

^h WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

ⁱ CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD; CHILD DEATH; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELLIPTOCYTOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERLACTATEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SEPSIS; SOUTH ASIAN OVALOCYTOSIS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; ANIMAL; MALARIA; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84055216969     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029203     Document Type: Article

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