Blackwater Fever in Ugandan Children With Severe Anemia is Associated With Poor Postdischarge Outcomes: A Prospective Cohort Study | Zendy

Robert O. Opoka | Zendy; Ali Waiswa | Zendy; Harriet Nambuya | Zendy; Chandy C. John | Zendy; James Tumwine | Zendy; Charles Karamagi | Zendy

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Blackwater Fever in Ugandan Children With Severe Anemia is Associated With Poor Postdischarge Outcomes: A Prospective Cohort Study

Author(s) -

Robert O. Opoka,

Ali Waiswa,

Harriet Nambuya,

Chandy C. John,

James Tumwine,

Charles Karamagi

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciz648

Subject(s) - medicine , malaria , confidence interval , anemia , parasitemia , hazard ratio , incidence (geometry) , pediatrics , prospective cohort study , case fatality rate , emergency medicine , cohort , surgery , epidemiology , plasmodium falciparum , physics , optics , immunology

Blackwater fever (BWF), one of the complications of severe malaria, has recently re-emerged as a cause of severe anemia (SA) in African children. However, postdischarge morbidity in children with BWF has previously not been described.

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