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Pregnant women are a reservoir of malaria transmission in Blantyre, Malawi

BACKGROUND: During pregnancy, women living in malaria-endemic regions are at increased risk of malaria infection and can harbour chronic placental infections. Intermittent preventive treatment with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP-IPTp) is administered to reduce malaria morbidity. It was hypothesized...

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Autores principales: Boudová, Sarah, Cohee, Lauren M, Kalilani-Phiri, Linda, Thesing, Phillip C, Kamiza, Steve, Muehlenbachs, Atis, Taylor, Terrie E, Laufer, Miriam K
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4301453/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25520145
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-13-506