Article
Thalassaemia in Vanuatu, south-west Pacific: frequency and haematological phenotypes of young children.
British journal of haematology - 1 Mar 1995
Ganczakowski M, Bowden D K, Maitland K, Williams T N, O'Shaughnessy D, Viji J, Lucassen A, Clegg J B, Weatherall D J
Abstract excerpt
The archipelago of Vanuatu situated in the South-West Pacific has a high frequency of alpha + thalassaemia and additionally on some of the islands there is a high frequency of beta thalassaemia. As part of a large cohort study to investigate the clinical effect of thalassaemia on malaria on the i...
Topics
- Child, Preschool
- Cross-Sectional Studies
- Erythrocyte Count
- Erythrocyte Indices
- Follow-Up Studies
- Gene Deletion
- Genotype
- Globins
- Hemoglobins
- Hemoglobins, Abnormal
- Humans
- Infant
- Infant, Newborn
- Malaria
- Phenotype
- Spleen
- Vanuatu
- alpha-Thalassemia