Plasmodium vivax congenital malaria in an area of very low endemicity in Guatemala: Implications for clinical and epidemiological surveillance in a malaria elimination context

Malaria Journal

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Castellanos, María Eugenia ^a   Bardají, Azucena ^b   Menegon, Michela ^c   Mayor, Alfredo ^b   Desai, Meghna ^d   Severini, Carlo ^c   Menéndez, Clara ^b   Padilla, Norma ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE DE GUATEMALA   (Guatemala)

^b CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital; Guatemala; Malaria; Plasmodium vivax

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; CHLOROQUINE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GUATEMALA; HEALTH HAZARD; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; NEWBORN; PALLOR; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; SKIN EXFOLIATION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GUATEMALA; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALARIA, VIVAX; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870513721     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-11-411     Document Type: Article

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