Reduced prevalence of placental malaria in primiparae with blood group O

BACKGROUND: Blood group O protects African children against severe malaria and has reached high prevalence in malarious regions. However, its role in malaria in pregnancy is ambiguous. In 839 delivering Ghanaian women, associations of ABO blood groups with Plasmodium falciparum infection were examin...

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Autores principales: Bedu-Addo, George, Gai, Prabhanjan P, Meese, Stefanie, Eggelte, Teunis A, Thangaraj, Kumarasamy, Mockenhaupt, Frank P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4119177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25066505
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-13-289

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