Malarial anaemia and anaemia severity in apparently healthy primary school children in urban and rural settings in the Mount Cameroon area: Cross sectional survey

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Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Sumbele, Irene Ule Ngole ^a   Kimbi, Helen Kuokuo ^a   Ndamukong Nyanga, Judith Lum ^b   Nweboh, Malaika ^a   Anchang Kimbi, Judith Kuoh ^a   Lum, Emmaculate ^a   Nana, Yannick ^a   Ndamukong, Kenneth K J ^a   Lehman, Leopold G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUEA   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DOUALA   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAMEROON; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGY ANALYZER; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIAL ANEMIA; MALE; MICROCYTOSIS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITEMIA; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMODIUM; POPULATION DENSITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; AGE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; ERYTHROCYTE; HEALTH; METABOLISM; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANEMIA; ANIMALS; CAMEROON; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; PARASITES; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOLS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84928478574     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123549     Document Type: Article

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