Incidence of severe malaria syndromes and status of immune responses among khat chewer malaria patients in Ethiopia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Ketema, Tsige ^a   Bacha, Ketema ^a   Alemayehu, Esayas ^a   Ambelu, Argaw ^a   Carvalho, Luzia Helena ^b  

^a JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHA EDULIS EXTRACT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1 ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G3 ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; HYPERPYREXIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALARIA SYNDROME; MALE; MASTICATION; MORBIDITY; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; RISK FACTOR; VOMITING; BLOOD; CATHA; DRUG EFFECTS; IMMUNOLOGY; INCIDENCE; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; METABOLISM; T LYMPHOCYTE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CATHA; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; INCIDENCE; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MASTICATION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940501914     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131212     Document Type: Article

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