Does malaria during pregnancy affect the newborn?

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 543-546

  Yakoob, Mohammad Yawar ^a   Zakaria, Asma ^a   Waqar, Saima Naheed ^a   Zafar, Samiah ^a   Wahla, Ali Saeed ^a   Zaidi, Sarah Kulsoom ^a   Sarwari, Arif R ^b   Qureshi, Rahat N ^a   Siddiqui, Amna Rehana ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALARIA; MEDICAL RECORD; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; PAKISTAN; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA; PAKISTAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33644896217     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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