Molecular detection of malaria at delivery reveals a high frequency of submicroscopic infections and associated placental damage in pregnant women from northwest colombia

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 178-183

  Arango, Eliana M ^a,b,c   Samuel, Roshini ^a,b,c   Agudelo, Olga M ^a,b,c   Carmona Fonseca, Jaime ^a,b,c   Maestre, Amanda ^a,b,c   Yanow, Stephanie K ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^b Provincial Laboratory for Public Health   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; CLINDAMYCIN; DNA; QUININE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOMBIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MATERNAL BLOOD; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; PILOT STUDY; PLACENTA DISORDER; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREGNANT WOMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COLOMBIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALARIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; PLACENTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880586836     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.12-0669     Document Type: Article

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