Fetal responses during placental malaria modify the risk of low birth weight

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1527-1534

  Kabyemela, Edward R ^a,b,c   Fried, Michal ^a,b,d   Kurtis, Jonathan D ^e   Mutabingwa, Theonest K ^a,b,f   Duffy, Patrick E ^a,b,d,g  

^a SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Muheza Designated District Hospital   (Tanzania)

^c TUMAINI UNIVERSITY   (Tanzania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^g SBRI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; LEPTIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; CYTOKINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FETUS RISK; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALARIA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RISK FACTOR; TANZANIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; FERRITINS; FETAL BLOOD; FETUS; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEPTIN; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 42149180127     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00964-07     Document Type: Article

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