Submicroscopic Plasmodium falciparum infections during pregnancy, in an area of Sudan with a low intensity of malaria transmission

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 339-344

  Adam, I ^a   A Elbasit, I E ^b   Salih, I ^b   Elbashir, M I ^b  

^a New Halfa Teaching Hospital   (Sudan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 2;

ADULT; ALLELE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MATERNAL WELFARE; MICROSCOPY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; SUDAN;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PARITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREVALENCE; SUDAN;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 21044445380     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485905X36244     Document Type: Article

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