The placenta in malaria: Mechanisms of infection, disease and foetal morbidity

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages

  Rogerson, S J ^a,b,d   Beeson, J G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d MALAWI LIVERPOOL WELLCOME TRUST CLINICAL RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Malawi)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FETUS DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; PATHOGENESIS; PLACENTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0033399568     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034983.1999.11813502     Document Type: Conference Paper

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