Short report: Prevalence and implications of cerebrospinal fluid leukocytosis in Papua New Guinean children hospitalized with severe malaria

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 866-868

  Laman, Moses ^b   Manning, Laurens ^a   Siba, Peter M ^b   Davis, Timothy M E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PLEOCYTOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; ACUTE DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; INFANT; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MIXED INFECTION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; MALARIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COINFECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84888606845     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.13-0281     Document Type: Article

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