Congenital malaria - A recurrent problem

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 95-98

  Brabin, Bernard J ^a,b  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNITY; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALARIA; MATERNAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREVALENCE; RELAPSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; INFANT; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RECURRENT DISEASE;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; RECURRENCE;

EID: 34547684033     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/146532807X192453     Document Type: Note

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