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Clinical features and outcome of severe malaria in Gambian children.
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The clinical and laboratory features of severe falciparum malaria in 180 Gambian children were studied between 1985 and 1989. Of the 180 children, 118 (66%) presented with seizures, 77 (43%) had cerebral malaria, 35 (20%) had witnessed seizures after admission, 29 (16%) were hypoglycemic, and 27 (15%) died. Respiratory distress was a common harbinger of a fatal outcome. The differences in admission parasite counts in the blood, hematocrit, and opening cerebrospinal pressures for patients who ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
- Volume:
- 21
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 577-587
- Publication date:
- 1995-09-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1537-6591
- ISSN:
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1058-4838
- Source identifiers:
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13543
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:13543
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- pubs:13543
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- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright date:
- 1995
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