Serum TNF alpha levels: A prognostic marker for assessment of severity of malaria

Tropical Biomedicine

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 645-653

  Kinra, P ^a   Dutta, V ^b  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b ARMED FORCES MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INDIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROGNOSIS; SERUM; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROGNOSIS; SERUM; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891467222     PISSN: 01275720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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