Intermittent Preventive Treatment in Pregnant Women Is Associated with Increased Risk of Severe Malaria in Their Offspring

BACKGROUND: In areas of widespread sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance, intermittent treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) fails to prevent placental malaria (PM) and may exacerbate drug resistant infections. Because PM predicts increased susceptibility to parasitemia during infancy, we hypothesized that I...

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Autores principales: Harrington, Whitney E., Morrison, Robert, Fried, Michal, Duffy, Patrick E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3581554/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23451036
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056183

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3581554/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23451036
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056183

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