Browsing School of Health Sciences by Subject "Asymptomatic paraistaemic"

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Association between sickle cell trait and low density parasitaemia among asymptomatic and parasitaemic individuals living in P. falciparum malaria Holoendemic region of Western Kenya.

Otieno, Walter; Estambale, Benson B.; Gondi, Stacey M.O.; Aluoch, Joash R. (SDI, 2008)

The frequency of the mutant gene for sickle cell is widely distributed in the sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent. There is epidemiologic evidence that sickle cell trait confers a survival ...