Haematological abnormalities in children with sickle cell disease and non-severe malaria infection in western Kenya

BACKGROUND: In Plasmodium falciparum infection, clinical conditions such as anaemia, thrombocytopenia and leukocytosis are common. Mutation in haemoglobin sub-unit beta gene (HBB) may be a genetic factor responsible for these haematological changes during infection. However, the contributions of the...

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Published in:BMC Infect Dis
Main Authors: Kosiyo, Paul, Otieno, Walter, Gitaka, Jesse, Munde, Elly O., Ouma, Collins
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2021
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8028187/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33827455
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06025-7
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