Haemoglobin levels for population from Gambo, a rural area of Ethiopia, and their association with anaemia and malaria

Malaria Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Santana Morales, Maria A ^a   Quispe Ricalde, Maria A ^a   Afonso Lehmann, Raquel N ^a   Berzosa, Pedro ^c   Lorenzo Morales, Jacob ^a   Tiziano, Gabriel ^b   Reyes, Francisco ^b   Benito, Agustin ^c   Valladares, Basilio ^a   Martinez Carretero, Enrique ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b Gambo General Rural Hospital   (Ethiopia)

^c Red de Investigación de Centros de Enfermedades Tropicales RICET Madrid   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Ethiopia; Haemoglobin; Malaria

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; CHILD; DNA EXTRACTION; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LABORATORY TEST; MALARIA; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REFERENCE VALUE; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANEMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 84888328542     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-12-435     Document Type: Article

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