The unusual presentation of a usual organism - The changing spectrum of the clinical manifestations of plasmodium vivax malaria in children: A retrospective study

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1964-1967

  Sharma, Shobha ^a   Chandra Aggarwal, Kailash ^a   Deswal, Shivani ^a   Raut, Deepak ^a   Roy, Neelam ^a   Kapoor, Rohit ^a  

^a SAFDARJUNG HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Children; Complications; Plasmodium vivax malaria

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCITES; BLEEDING DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONVULSION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEVER; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMOGLOBINURIA; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INDIA; JAUNDICE; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SMEAR; SPLENOMEGALY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 84883874928     PISSN: 2249782X     EISSN: 0973709X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7860/JCDR/2013/5633.3370     Document Type: Article

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