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Reduced risk for placental malaria in iron deficient women

BACKGROUND: Nutritional iron deficiency may limit iron availability to the malaria parasite reducing infection risk, and/or impair host immunity thereby increasing this risk. In pregnant women, there is evidence of an adverse effect with iron supplementation, but the few reported studies are strongl...

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Autores principales: Senga, Edward L, Harper, Gregory, Koshy, Gibby, Kazembe, Peter N, Brabin, Bernard J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3050778/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21345193
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-10-47