Advanced search
Publication Cover
Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology Volume 81, 1987 - Issue 4
Journal homepage
10
Views
48
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Ethnic differences in the prevalence of splenomegaly and malaria in The Gambia

B. M. GreenwoodMedical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia
,
F. GroenendaalMedical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia
,
A. K. BradleyMedical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia
,
Alice M. GreenwoodMedical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia
,
Fiona ShentonMedical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia
,
S. TullochMedical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia
&
R. HayesTropical Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel St, LondonWC1E 7HT, U.K.
 show all
Pages 345-354 | Received 02 Jun 1986, Published online: 15 Nov 2016

REFERENCES

  • Bradley, A. K., Greenwood, B. M., Greenwood, A. M., Marsh, K., Byass, P., Tulloch, S. & Hayes, R. (1986). Bed-nets (mosquito nets) and morbidity from malaria. Lancet, ii, 204–207.
  • Bryceson, A. D. M., Fleming, A. F. & Edington, G. M. (1976). Splenomegaly in northern Nigeria. Acta Tropica, 33, 424–426.
  • Bryceson, A. D. M., Fakunle, Y. M., Fleming, A. F., Crane, G., Hutt, M. S. R., De Cock, K. M., Greenwood, B. M., Marsden, P. & Rees, P. (1983). Malaria and splenomegaly. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 77, 879.
  • Crane, G. G. & Pryor, D. S. (1971). Malaria and tropical splenomegaly syndrome in New Guinea. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 65, 315–323.
  • Crane, G. G. (1986). Hyperreactive malarious splenomegaly (tropical splenomegaly syndrome). Parasitology Today, 2, 4–9.
  • De Cock, K. M., Lucas, S. B., Rees, P. H., Hodgen, A. M., Jupp, R. A. & Slavin, B. (1983). Obscure splenomegaly in the tropics that is not the tropical splenomegaly syndrome. British Medical Journal, ii, 1347–1348.
  • Greenwood, B. M. & Fakunle, Y. M. (1979). The tropical splenomegaly syndrome: a review of its pathogenesis. In The Role of the Spleen in the Immunology of Parasitic Diseases, pp. 229–244. Basel: Schwabe.
  • Hamilton, P. J. S., Hutt, M. S. R., Wilks, N. E., Olweny, C., Ndawula, R. L. & Mwanje, L. (1965). Idiopathic splenomegaly in Uganda. II. Geographical aspects. East African Medical Journal, 42, 196–202.
  • Jensen, J. B., Hoffman, S. L., Boland, M. T., Akood, M. A. S., Laughlin, L. W., Kurniawan, L. & Marwoto, H. A. (1984). Comparison of immunity to malaria in Sudan and Indonesia: crisis-form versus merozoite-invasion inhibition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 81, 922–925.
  • Marsden, P. D. & Crane, G. G. (1976). The tropical splenomegaly syndrome: a current appraisal. Revista Instituto de Medecina Tropical Saõ Paulo, 18, 54–70.
  • McGregor, I. A., Hall, P. J., Williams, K., Hardy, C. L. S. & Turner, M. W. (1966a). Demonstration of circulating antibodies to Plasmodium falciparum by gel diffusion techniques. Nature, 210, 1384–1386.
  • McGregor, I. A., Williams, K., Billewicz, W. Z. & Thomson, A. M. (1966b). Haemoglobin concentrations and anaemia in young West African (Gambian) children. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 60, 650–667.
  • Oppenheimer, S. J., Higgs, D. R., Weatherall, D. J., Barker, J. & Spark, R. A. (1984). a-thalassaemia in Papua New Guinea. Lancet, i, 424–426.
  • Ziegler, J. L. & Stuiver, P. C. (1972). Tropical splenomegaly syndrome in a Rwandan kindred in Uganda. British Medical Journal, iii, 79–82.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Order Reprints Request Corporate Permissions

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

Request Academic Permissions

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.