Iron replacement therapy and anemia associated with chronic infectious diseases in sub-saharan Africa

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1438-1439

  Kerkhoff, Andrew D ^a,b,c   Lawn, Stephen D ^c,d  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DISEASE COURSE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON THERAPY; LETTER; MORTALITY; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS; ANEMIA; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; MALE;

ANEMIA; BIOMARKERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84928888497     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ063     Document Type: Letter

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