Article
Burden of malaria in pregnancy in Mali and impact of dosing frequency and antimalarial drug resistance on the effectiveness of intermittent preventive therapy in pregnancy in Africa
2014-01-01
Abstract excerpt
For many centuries, malaria has remained the most common parasitic disease in sub-Saharan Africa potentially placing 32 million pregnancies at risk each year. Malaria in pregnancy (MiP) in malaria endemic Africa is mostly asymptomatic or paucisymptomatic, yet associated with maternal anaemia and intra-uterine growth retardation resulting in low birth weight (LBW) which is an important risk factor for infant mortal...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 1dabf145-7072-5d8d-a764-ffc6ab5c6d34
- DOI
- 10.17638/00017795
