Indicators of Life-Threatening Malaria in African Children
Authors:
- D ForsterDFD Forster
- C WaruiruCWC Waruiru
- I MwangiIMI Mwangi
- M WinstanleyMWM Winstanley
- V MarshV Marsh
- C NewtonC Newton
- P WinstanleyPWP Winstanley
- P WarnPWP Warn
- N PeshuNPN Peshu
- 25 May 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 332 (21) , 1399-1404
Abstract
About 90 percent of the deaths from malaria are in African children, but criteria to guide the recognition and management of severe malaria have not been validated in them.Keywords
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