Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency and malaria--a study on north Madras population.

Authors
Category Primary study
JournalThe Journal of communicable diseases
Year 1991
Blood samples from 381 healthy individuals and 236 malaria patients residing in North Madras were studied for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency. The incidence of this deficiency in this area was found to be 10.05%. Partially deficient healthy females showed a protective trend against malarial infection with the Chi-squared test approaching statistical significance.
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