Burden and impact of Plasmodium vivax in pregnancy: A multi-centre prospective observational study.

• Main Authors: Azucena Bardají (Author), Flor Ernestina Martínez-Espinosa (Author), Myriam Arévalo-Herrera (Author), Norma Padilla (Author), Swati Kochar (Author), Maria Ome-Kaius (Author), Camila Bôtto-Menezes (Author), María Eugenia Castellanos (Author), Dhanpat Kumar Kochar (Author), Sanjay Kumar Kochar (Author), Inoni Betuela (Author), Ivo Mueller (Author), Stephen Rogerson (Author), Chetan Chitnis (Author), Dhiraj Hans (Author), Michela Menegon (Author), Carlo Severini (Author), Hernando Del Portillo (Author), Carlota Dobaño (Author), Alfredo Mayor (Author), Jaume Ordi (Author), Mireia Piqueras (Author), Sergi Sanz (Author), Mats Wahlgren (Author), Laurence Slutsker (Author), Meghna Desai (Author), Clara Menéndez (Author), PregVax Study Group (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Despite that over 90 million pregnancies are at risk of Plasmodium vivax infection annually, little is known about the epidemiology and impact of the infection in pregnancy.We undertook a health facility-based prospective observational study in pregnant women from Guatemala (GT), Colombia (CO), Braz...