The burden of sickle cell disease in Cape Town

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 752-754

  Wonkam, Ambroise ^a   Ponde, Chido ^a   Nicholson, Nan ^b   Fieggen, Karen ^a   Ramesar, Raj ^a   Davidson, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FOLIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROXYUREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DACTYLITIS; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SOUTH AFRICA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867444423     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7196/SAMJ.5886     Document Type: Article

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