Diagnosing malaria in pregnancy: An update

Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1177-1187

  Fried, Michal ^a,b   Muehlenbachs, Atis ^c   Duffy, Patrick E ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

diagnosis; PCR; placenta histology; Plasmodium falciparum; pregnancy malaria; RDT

Indexed keywords

HEMOZOIN;

ANEMIA; BLOOD SMEAR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MICROSCOPY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY MALARIA; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HEMEPROTEINS; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

EID: 84870597540     PISSN: 14787210     EISSN: 17448336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/eri.12.98     Document Type: Review

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