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

Br J Haematol. 2016 Jul;174(2):325-9. doi: 10.1111/bjh.13769. Epub 2015 Oct 12.

Authors

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. [email protected].
⁶ University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi. [email protected].
⁷ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. [email protected].

No abstract available

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

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Anemia
Anemia, Sickle Cell / diagnosis*
Child
Child, Preschool
Cohort Studies
Cross-Sectional Studies
Electrophoresis
Female
Hemoglobins / analysis*
Humans
Malaria
Malawi
Male
Pathology, Molecular / methods*
Pathology, Molecular / standards
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Proteinuria

Substances

Hemoglobins

Grants and funding