Severe disease in children hospitalized with a diagnosis of Plasmodium vivax in south-eastern Pakistan

Malaria Journal

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Shaikh, Salma ^a   Memon, Hafeezullah ^a   Iohano, Bhagchand ^a   Shaikh, Amna ^a   Ahmed, Imran ^a   Baird, J Kevin ^b,c  

^a Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences   (India)

^b OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT   (Viet Nam)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

children; Clinical presentation; Hospital; Pakistan; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium vivax; Risk; Severe illness

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONVULSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NONHUMAN; PAKISTAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; THROMBOCYTE;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; PAKISTAN; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84860342232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-11-144     Document Type: Article

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