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Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency and the risk of malaria and other diseases in children in Kenya: a case-control and a cohort study

BACKGROUND: The global prevalence of X-linked glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is thought to be a result of selection by malaria, but epidemiological studies have yielded confusing results. We investigated the relationships between G6PD deficiency and both malaria and non-malarial...

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Autores principales: Uyoga, Sophie, Ndila, Carolyne M, Macharia, Alex W, Nyutu, Gideon, Shah, Shivang, Peshu, Norbert, Clarke, Geraldine M, Kwiatkowski, Dominic P, Rockett, Kirk A, Williams, Thomas N
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4703047/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26686045
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3026(15)00152-0