The effects of malaria and intermittent preventive treatment during pregnancy on fetal anemia in Malawi

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1096-1102

  Rogawski, Elizabeth T ^a   Chaluluka, Ebbie ^b   Molyneux, Malcolm E ^b,c   Feng, Gaoqian ^d   Rogerson, Stephen J ^e   Meshnick, Steven R ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^c LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d BURNET INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; PYRIMETHAMINE PLUS SULFADOXINE;

ANEMIA; BLOOD; FEMALE; FETUS ANEMIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALAWI; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS PLACENTAL DELIVERY; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ANEMIA, NEONATAL; ANTIMALARIALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL DISEASES; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA; MALAWI; ODDS RATIO; PARASITEMIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREVALENCE; PYRIMETHAMINE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SULFADOXINE;

EID: 84866711642     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis597     Document Type: Review

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