Severe and benign Plasmodium vivax malaria in Emberá (Amerindian) children and adolescents from an endemic municipality in Western Colombia

• Glavni autori: Diego A. Medina-Morales (Autor), Estefanía Montoya-Franco (Autor), Viviana d.P. Sanchez-Aristizabal (Autor), Jorge E. Machado-Alba (Autor), Alfonso J. Rodríguez-Morales (Autor)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: Elsevier, 2016-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
• Online pristup: Connect to this object online.

Summary: Malaria in children is still an important public health problem in endemic areas of South-East Asia and Latin America. Certain forms of the disease, such as Plasmodium vivax severe malaria, are still neglected. This descriptive study assessed the frequency of severe and benign P. vivax infe...