Adverse birth outcomes in a malarious area

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 659-666

  Kalanda, B F ^a,b   Verhoeff, F H ^a   Chimsuku, L ^a,b   Harper, G ^b   Brabin, B J ^a,c  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FANSIDAR; HEMOGLOBIN;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FETUS GROWTH; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALAWI; MATERNAL DISEASE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MATERNAL WELFARE; NEWBORN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PLACENTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIMIGRAVIDA; RISK FACTOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SHORT STATURE; STILLBIRTH; VENEREAL DISEASE REACTION TEST;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREMATURE BIRTH; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33646130869     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268805005285     Document Type: Article

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