Malaria in pregnancy in an area of stable and intense transmission: Is it asymptomatic?

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1016-1021

  Tagbor, Harry ^a   Bruce, Jane ^b   Browne, Edmund ^a   Greenwood, Brian ^b   Chandramohan, Daniel ^b  

^a KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical presentation; Malaria; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN;

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MALARIA; MATERNAL HEALTH; PREGNANCY;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DIZZINESS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; GHANA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MALARIA; MORBIDITY; MULTIPARA; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PARASITEMIA; PREGNANCY; PRIMIGRAVIDA; VOMITING;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BILIRUBIN; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; ENDEMIC DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; MALARIA; PARASITEMIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC;

AFRICA; GHANA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 48349121337     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2008.02111.x     Document Type: Article

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