Improvement of a tissue maceration technique for the determination of placental involvement in schistosomiasis.

• Main Authors: Martha Charlotte Holtfreter (Author), Heinrich Neubauer (Author), Tanja Groten (Author), Hosny El-Adawy (Author), Jana Pastuschek (Author), Joachim Richter (Author), Dieter Häussinger (Author), Mathias Wilhelm Pletz (Author), Benjamin Thomas Schleenvoigt (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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Schistosomiasis in pregnancy may cause low birth weight, prematurity and stillbirth of the offspring. The placenta of pregnant women might be involved when schistosome ova are trapped in placental tissue. Standard histopathological methods only allow the examination of a limited amount of placental...