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

• मुख्य लेखकों: Martha Charlotte Holtfreter (लेखक), Heinrich Neubauer (लेखक), Tanja Groten (लेखक), Hosny El-Adawy (लेखक), Jana Pastuschek (लेखक), Joachim Richter (लेखक), Dieter Häussinger (लेखक), Mathias Wilhelm Pletz (लेखक), Benjamin Thomas Schleenvoigt (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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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...