Changing profile of severe malaria in North Indian children

Indian Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 483-487

  Yadav, Dinesh ^a,b   Chandra, Jagdish ^a   Aneja, Satinder ^a   Kumar, Virendra ^a   Kumar, Praveen ^a   Dutta, Ashok Kumar ^a  

^a KALAWATI SARAN CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (India)

^b LADY HARDINGE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium vivax; Severe malaria

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; BRAIN MALARIA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENGUE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INDIA; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MORBIDITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REAGIN TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPTICEMIA; SHOCK; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TYPHOID FEVER;

ADOLESCENT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84862869022     PISSN: 00195456     EISSN: 09737693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12098-011-0603-x     Document Type: Article

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