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Comparative Study
. 1992;44(1):62-5.

[Malaria and sickle-cell anemia. A correlation of the clinical and epidemiological aspects]

[Article in Spanish]
A Rodríguez-Ojea Menéndez  1 , M García de la Osa
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  • PMID: 1344691
Comparative Study

[Malaria and sickle-cell anemia. A correlation of the clinical and epidemiological aspects]

[Article in Spanish]
A Rodríguez-Ojea Menéndez et al. Rev Cubana Med Trop. 1992.

Abstract

A study was carried out on susceptibility of sicklemia patients to Plasmodium falciparum (PF) malaria in 151 hemoglobin S carriers (homozygous and heterozygous), assisted at the Cotonú Hospital, Benin, for 1 year. These diseased did not have any serious malaria complications. The results were compared to a control group without sickle-cell anemia who had 21.5% of complications due to the disease. Prevalence of genetic anomaly was higher than 20% among the general population under study.

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