Asymptomatic Plasmodium parasitaemia in pregnant Nigerian women: almost a decade after Roll Back Malaria

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 16-20

  Nwagha, Uchenna Ifeanyi ^a   Ugwu, Valentine Onyebuchi ^a   Nwagha, Theresa Ukamaka ^a   Anyaehie, Bond Ugochukwu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Malaria; Nigeria; Parasitaemia; Plasmodium; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMATOCRIT; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; NIGERIA; PARASITEMIA; PARITY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PLASMODIUM; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIMIGRAVIDA; SEASON; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MOSQUITO CONTROL; NIGERIA; PARASITEMIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 56949095279     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.07.016     Document Type: Article

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