Cytokine signatures of Plasmodium vivax infection during pregnancy and delivery outcomes.

• Main Authors: Carlota Dobaño (Author), Azucena Bardají (Author), Myriam Arévalo-Herrera (Author), Flor E Martínez-Espinosa (Author), Camila Bôtto-Menezes (Author), Norma Padilla (Author), Michela Menegon (Author), Swati Kochar (Author), Sanjay Kumar Kochar (Author), Holger Unger (Author), Maria Ome-Kaius (Author), Anna Rosanas-Urgell (Author), Adriana Malheiros (Author), Maria Eugenia Castellanos (Author), Dhiraj Hans (Author), Meghna Desai (Author), Aina Casellas (Author), Chetan E Chitnis (Author), Carlo Severini (Author), Ivo Mueller (Author), Stephen Rogerson (Author), Clara Menéndez (Author), Pilar Requena (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Plasmodium vivax malaria is a neglected disease, particularly during pregnancy. Severe vivax malaria is associated with inflammatory responses but in pregnancy immune alterations make it uncertain as to what cytokine signatures predominate, and how the type and quantity of blood immune mediators inf...