Browsing Department of Medical Biochemistry by Subject "Sickle cell trait; asymptomatic parasitaemia; P. falciparum malaria"
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Association between sickle cell trait and low density parasitaemia in a P. falciparum malaria holoendemic region of Western Kenya
(University of Nairobi Institute of Tropical & Infectious Diseases (UNITID), Kenya, 2012)Aims: 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 ...