Plasmodium vivax presenting as acute glomerulonephritis in a 3-year-old child

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 63-64

  Bhatt, Girish Chandra ^a   Nandan, Devki ^a   Dewan, Vivek ^a   Dey, Soumya ^a  

^a DR RAM MANOHAR LOHIA HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTESUNATE; ENALAPRIL; PARACETAMOL;

ABDOMINAL SWELLING; ACUTE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILL; ERYTHROCYTE; FACE EDEMA; FEVER; HEMATURIA; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEG EDEMA; MALE; PALLOR; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RIGOR; VOMITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENALAPRIL; FEVER; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 84856983276     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/td.2011.110372     Document Type: Article

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