Malaria is a cause of iron deficiency in African children

Malaria and iron deficiency (ID) are common and interrelated public health problems in African children. Observational data suggest that interrupting malaria transmission reduces the prevalence of ID(1). To test the hypothesis that malaria might cause ID, we used sickle cell trait (HbAS, rs334), a g...

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Autores principales: Muriuki, John Muthii, Mentzer, Alexander J., Mitchell, Ruth, Webb, Emily L., Etyang, Anthony O., Kyobutungi, Catherine, Morovat, Alireza, Kimita, Wandia, Ndungu, Francis M., Macharia, Alex W., Ngetsa, Caroline J., Makale, Johnstone, Lule, Swaib A., Musani, Solomon K., Raffield, Laura M., Cutland, Clare L., Sirima, Sodiomon B., Diarra, Amidou, Tiono, Alfred B., Fried, Michal, Gwamaka, Moses, Seth, Adu-Afarwuah, Wirth, James P., Wegmüller, Rita, Madhi, Shabir A., Snow, Robert W., Hill, Adrian V.S., Rockett, Kirk A., Sandhu, Manjinder S., Kwiatkowski, Dominic P., Prentice, Andrew M., Byrd, Kendra A., Ndjebayi, Alex, Stewart, Christine P., Engle-Stone, Reina, Green, Tim J., Karakochuk, Crystal D., Suchdev, Parminder S., Bejon, Philip, Duffy, Patrick E., Smith, George Davey, Elliott, Alison M., Williams, Thomas N., Atkinson, Sarah H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7610676/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33619371
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01238-4

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