Comparative study of clinical presentation and hematological indices in hospitalized sickle cell patients with severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria

• Main Authors: Prasanta Purohit (Author), Pradeep K. Mohanty (Author), Siris Patel (Author), Padmalaya Das (Author), Jogeswar Panigrahi (Author), Kishalaya Das (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Sickle-cell-gene has a high frequency in malaria endemic regions. In India, though the prevalence of both sickle-cell-gene and malaria are high, no study has been carried out. This study aims to find out the possible differences in hematological and clinical parameters in severe falcipar...