Blackwater fever at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Kenya: a case report
Bhatt, K.M.; Bhatt, S.M.; Tombe, M.; Okelo, G.B.
East African Medical Journal 71(11): 755-757
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0012-835X PMID: 7859663 Document Number: 435459
Three cases of blackwater fever are reported from Kenya. Two of the patients fitted into the classical description of blackwater fever while one case was possibly due to drug induced haemolysis in a G6PD deficiency patient.
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