Impact of asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum parasitemia on the imunohematological indices among school children and adolescents in a rural area highly endemic for Malaria in Southern Mozambique

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Gudo, Eduardo S ^a   Prista, António ^b   Jani, Ilesh V ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SAÚDE   (Mozambique)

^b Universidade Pedagógica Campus de Lhanguene   (Mozambique)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALARIA; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MOZAMBIQUE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADOLESCENT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MOZAMBIQUE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; RURAL HEALTH; SCHOOLS; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878084593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-244     Document Type: Article

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