Establishing sickle cell diagnostics and characterizing a paediatric sickle cell disease cohort in Malawi

J Brett Heimlich^{1

2}, Godwin Chipoka¹, Portia Kamthunzi¹, Robert Krysiak¹, Yacinta Majawa¹, Pilirani Mafunga¹, Yuri Fedoriw³, Ajib Phiri⁴, Nigel S Key³, Kenneth I Ataga³, Satish Gopal^{5

6

7}

Affiliations

¹ UNC Project-Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi.
² Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, GA, USA.
³ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
⁴ University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi.
⁵ UNC Project-Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi. satish_gopal@med.unc.edu.
⁶ University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi. satish_gopal@med.unc.edu.
⁷ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. satish_gopal@med.unc.edu.

J Brett Heimlich et al. Br J Haematol. 2016 Jul.

. 2016 Jul;174(2):325-9.

doi: 10.1111/bjh.13769. Epub 2015 Oct 12.

¹ UNC Project-Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi.
² Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, GA, USA.
³ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
⁴ University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi.
⁵ UNC Project-Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi. satish_gopal@med.unc.edu.
⁶ University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi. satish_gopal@med.unc.edu.
⁷ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. satish_gopal@med.unc.edu.

No abstract available

Keywords: paediatrics; red cell disorders; sickle; sickle cell disease.

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