Article
Association between haematological parameters and sickle cell genotypes in children with Plasmodium falciparum malaria residents in Kisumu County in western Kenya
2020-11-23
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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background: </bold>Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a monogenic disorder due to point mutation in the β-globin gene resulting in substitution of Valine for Glutamic acid. The SCD is prevalent in <italic>P. falciparum</italic> endemic regions such as western Kenya. Carriage of different sickle cell genotypes may influence haematological parameter during malaria. Children resident in ma...
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- Literature Corpus work
- c7016ef5-3d2d-5574-8bf1-220541503c03
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-47538/v3
