Assessing the impact of differences in malaria transmission intensity on clinical and haematological indices in children with malaria

Malaria Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Mensah Brown, Henrietta E ^a   Abugri, James ^a,b   Asante, Kwaku P ^a   Dwomoh, Duah ^c   Dosoo, David ^a   Atuguba, Frank ^d   Conway, David J ^e   Awandare, Gordon A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (Ghana)

^c KINTAMPO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

^d NAVRONGO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

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

Author keywords

Malaria; Severe malarial anaemia; Sickle cell trait; Transmission intensity

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN C; HEMOGLOBIN S;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAMILY FUNCTIONING; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GHANA; GRANULOCYTE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MONOCYTE; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PLATELET DISTRIBUTION WIDTH; RED BLOOD CELL DISTRIBUTION WIDTH; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE VOLUME; BLOOD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; PARASITEMIA;

EID: 85014425223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-017-1745-8     Document Type: Article

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