Placental histopathologic changes associated with subclinical malaria infection and its impact on the fetal environment

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 973-980

  Parekh, Falgunee K ^a,d,e,f   Davison, Billie B ^a,d,e,f   Gamboa, Dionicia ^b,d,e,f   Hernandez, Jean ^a,c,d,e,f   Branch, OraLee H ^a,d,e,f  

^a Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia ^*  (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Peru)

^c Laboratorio de Investigacion en Productos Naturales Antiparasitoarios de la Amazonia   (Peru)

^d TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOZOIN; HEMOPROTEIN; PIGMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PLACENTA BARRIER; BLOOD SMEAR; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FETAL WELL BEING; FETUS; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS MONITORING; FETUS OUTCOME; HEMATOCRIT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MATERNAL BLOOD; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MICROSCOPY; MONOCYTE; PARASITE DETECTION; PARASITEMIA; PERU; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL MALARIA PIGMENT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMISTRY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMEPROTEINS; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MONOCYTES; PARASITEMIA; PERU; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952052305     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.09-0445     Document Type: Article

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