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SUBMITTER: Boudova S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5853669 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Boudová Sarah S Divala Titus T Mungwira Randy R Mawindo Patricia P Tomoka Tamiwe T Laufer Miriam K MK
The Journal of infectious diseases 20170901 6
Pregnancy-associated Plasmodium falciparum infection impacts the health of mothers and newborns, but little is known about the effects of these infections on infant susceptibility to malaria. We followed 473 mother-infant pairs during pregnancy and through 2 years of age. We observed that children born to mothers with placental malaria, but not those born to mothers with peripheral infection without evidence of placental sequestration, had increased risk of malaria during the first year of life ...[more]