Severe anemia in Papua New Guinean children from a malaria-endemic area: a case-control etiologic study.

• Main Authors: Laurens Manning (Author), Moses Laman (Author), Anna Rosanas-Urgell (Author), Pascal Michon (Author), Susan Aipit (Author), Cathy Bona (Author), Peter Siba (Author), Ivo Mueller (Author), Timothy M E Davis (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: There are few detailed etiologic studies of severe anemia in children from malaria-endemic areas and none in those countries with holoendemic transmission of multiple Plasmodium species. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We examined associates of severe anemia in 143 well-characterized Pap...