"Parasitologic and Hematologic Variables Associated with Mortality Among Infants in Western Kenya."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 44th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, held November 17-21, 1995, in San Antonio, Texas, "As part of a larger prospective study of malaria in children in western Kenya, an area with hyperendemic Plasmodium falciparum transmission, we conducted a nested case-control study to identify parasitologic and hematologic variables associated with death. Infants who died since the start of enrollment (cases) were matched with randomly selected live infants by month of birth and sex (controls); controls were followed until the death of the matched case. All had monthly blood smears and hemoglobin...

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