Developmental allometry and paediatric malaria

Malaria Journal

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Billig, Erica M W ^a   O'Meara, Wendy P ^b,c   Riley, Eleanor M ^d   McKenzie, F Ellis ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MOI UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age dependent; Allometry; Cerebral malaria; Malaria; Paediatric malaria; Severe malarial anaemia

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALLOMETRY; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; MALARIA; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; AGE; BIOMETRY; BLOOD; CHILD; ERYTHROCYTE; HOSPITALIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE; LIVER; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; SPLEEN;

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AGE FACTORS; ANEMIA; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BIOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; INFANT; LEUKOCYTES; LIVER; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPLEEN;

EID: 84857695559     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-11-64     Document Type: Article

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