Placental malaria and immunity to infant measles

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 507-508

  Owens, S ^a,b   Harper, G ^b   Amuasi, J ^d   Offei Larbi, G ^d   Ordi, J ^c   Brabin, Bernard J ^b,e  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d KOMFO ANOKYE TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Ghana)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; MEASLES ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MEASLES; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIMALARIALS; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, MATERNALLY-ACQUIRED; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA; MALE; MEASLES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLACENTA DISEASES; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS;

EID: 33744790287     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2005.085274     Document Type: Article

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