Submicroscopic malaria infection during pregnancy and the impact of intermittent preventive treatment

Malaria Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Cohee, Lauren M ^a   Kalilani Phiri, Linda ^b   Boudova, Sarah ^a   Joshi, Sudhaunshu ^a   Mukadam, Rabia ^b   Seydel, Karl B ^b,c   Mawindo, Patricia ^b   Thesing, Phillip ^b   Kamiza, Steve ^b   Makwakwa, Kingsley ^b   Muehlenbachs, Atis ^d   Taylor, Terrie E ^b,c   Laufer, Miriam K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Malaria in pregnancy; Placental malaria; Submicroscopic infection; Sulphadoxine pyrimethamine intermittent preventive treatment; Sulphadoxine pyrimethamine resistance

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; DRUG COMBINATION; ETHANOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; FANASIL, PYRIMETHAMINE DRUG COMBINATION; FLUORENE DERIVATIVE; HEMOPROTEIN; HEMOZOIN; PROTOZOAL DNA; PYRIMETHAMINE; QUININE; SULFADOXINE;

ADULT; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BLOOD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; EMBRYOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FOLLOW UP; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALARIA; MALAWI; NEWBORN; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PLACENTA; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREVALENCE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; TRANSMISSION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE; ERYTHROCYTES; ETHANOLAMINES; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FLUORENES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMEPROTEINS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALARIA; MALAWI; PARASITEMIA; PLACENTA; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTERS; PREVALENCE; PYRIMETHAMINE; QUININE; SULFADOXINE;

EID: 84904072194     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-274     Document Type: Article

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