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A Genotyping Study in Benin Comparing the Carriage of Plasmodium falciparum Infections Before Pregnancy and in Early Pregnancy: Story of a Persistent Infection.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 15 Jul 2021
Jafari-Guemouri Sayeh, Courtois Laura, Mama Atika, Rouas Baptiste, Neto Braga Gabriel, Accrombessi Manfred, Massougbodji Achille, Ding Xavier C, Tuikue Ndam Nicaise, Fievet Nadine, Briand Valérie
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BACKGROUND: Malaria infections in the first trimester of pregnancy are frequent and deleterious for both mother and child health. To investigate if these early infections are newly acquired or already present in the host, we assessed whether parasites detected before pregnancy and those detected in early pregnancy are the same infection. METHODS: We used data from the preconceptional "RECIPAL" study (Benin,...
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