Malaria : a hematological perspective / edited by Saad H. Abdalla & Geoffrey Pasvol.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abdalla, Saad H.

Pasvol, G. (Geoffrey)

Series:

Tropical medicine ; v. 4.

Tropical medicine ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Malaria.

Medical Subjects:

Malaria.

Physical Description:

xvi, 429 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Imperial College Press ; River Edge, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific Pub., [2004]

Contents:

Laboratory procedures for diagnosis of malaria / D.C. Warhurst and J.E. Williams

Definition, epidemiology, diagnosis and management of the anemia of malaria / Geoffrey Pasvol and Saad H. Abdalla

Pathogenesis of the anemia of malaria / Saad H. Abdalla and Geoffrey Pasvol

Iron and folate in malaria / Saad H. Abdalla

Leukocytes in malaria / Saad H. Abdalla

Cytokine changes in malaria / Saad H. Abdalla

The bone marrow in human malaria / S.H. Abdalla and S.N. Wickramasinghe

Platelets and blood coagulation in human malaria / Paul N. Newton, Etim Essien and Nicholas J. White

Innate resistance to malaria conferred by red cell genetic defects / Ronald L. Nagel

The spleen and malaria / Imelda Bates

Malaria and Burkitt's lymphoma / Christine A. Facer

Malaria and blood transfusion / Peter L. Chiodini and John A.J. Barbara.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1860943578

OCLC:

56699749