Placental Malaria
Impaired placental autophagy in placental malaria
... to malaria rather than infection itself is in keeping with the well-estab- lished bi-directional link between autophagy and inflammation ...in placental malaria with intervillositis and contribute to ...
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Complement activation, placental malaria infection, and birth weight in areas characterized by unstable malaria transmission in central Sudan
... and placental malaria infection in the current study, a previous study in eastern Sudan showed that women with blood type O were at higher risk of placental malaria infection (OR = ...of ...
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Reduced prevalence of placental malaria in primiparae with blood group O
... of placental malaria by histopathological diagnosis in these previous studies and by blood film microscopy and PCR in the ...tal malaria, with a larger effect in primiparae than in Table 3 ...
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Monocytes and macrophages and placental malaria infections in an area of unstable malaria transmission in eastern Sudan
... investigate malaria placental histology and monocytes and macrophage cellular infil- trations in an area with unstable malaria transmission in ...the placental infections were past infections ...
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Detection and clinical manifestation of placental malaria in southern Ghana
... In conclusion, placental malaria commonly is missed by standard microscopy of peripheral blood films. Whereas positive results of PCR seem not to be related to poor pregnancy outcome, detection of HRP2 is ...
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ABO blood group system and placental malaria in an area of unstable malaria transmission in eastern Sudan
... Host genetic factors modulate the risk and severity of infection via specific mediators, which can be different in various epidemiological settings. Cell adhesion plays a fundamental role in placental ...
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Inhibition of placental mTOR signaling provides a link between placental malaria and reduced birthweight
... in placental tissue obtained from women with placental malaria and in cultured PHT cells, we observed that placental malaria-associated intervillosi- tis consistently inhibited ...
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Reliability of rapid diagnostic test for diagnosing peripheral and placental malaria in an area of unstable malaria transmission in Eastern Sudan
... detecting placental malaria using peripheral blood at time of delivery, in the later study ...of placental in- fection, as determined by microscopy and RDT, was ...of malaria in pregnancy ...
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Prevalence of Placental Malaria and Effects on Birth Weight of Neonate of Mothers Who Had Antenatal Care in Maiduguri Metropolitan City, Nigeria
... and placental malaria was significant in current ...to placental malaria with increasing maternal age ...of placental malaria ...for placental malaria occurring in ...
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Decline of placental malaria in southern Ghana after the implementation of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy
... Intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) denotes the administration of a curative dose of an anti- malarial, commonly sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP), during routine antenatal care, irrespective of ...
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Placental malaria is associated with attenuated CD4 T cell responses to tuberculin PPD 12 months after BCG vaccination
... By contrast, we did not find an association between PM and responses to CMV. There are distinct differ- ences in the presentation of BCG and CMV, as the BCG vaccine is administered within 24 h of birth and is pre- sent ...
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ABO blood group and the risk of placental malaria in sub Saharan Africa
... cental malaria were ...against placental malaria infection regardless of parity; however this was not statistically ...of placental parasitaemia in primiparae with blood group O that was found ...
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Clinical development of placental malaria vaccines and immunoassays harmonization: a workshop report
... of placental‑type infected erythrocytes by flow cytometry While antibodies that inhibit binding of placental type ...against placental malaria is still unclear, the generated data will be ...
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Impact of Maternal HIV Infection and Placental Malaria on the Transplacental Transfer of Influenza Antibodies in Mother Infant Pairs in Malawi, 2013 2014
... The proportion of mothers and newborns with HAI titers >1:40 against the circulating influenza strains and the corresponding GMT by maternal HIV and placental malaria status are shown in Supplmentary ...
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Adhesion of Plasmodium falciparum infected erythrocytes in ex vivo perfused placental tissue: a novel model of placental malaria
... erythrocytes bind to a loose matrix of chondroitin sul- phate proteoglycan chains in the intervillous space [64]. Histological examination of the perfused tissue showed parasite accumulation both in the intervillous ...
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Diagnosis of placental malaria in poorly fixed and processed placental tissue
... diagnose malaria in pregnant women because parasitized erythrocytes sequestered in the placenta are often absent from the peripheral ...and placental blood, polymerase chain reac- tion (PCR), and rapid ...
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CD20, CD3, placental malaria infections and low birth weight in an area of unstable malaria transmission in Central Sudan
... as malaria pigment [15]. Placental biopsy samples were stored at room temperature in Medani until transportation to Khartoum, where the histology was ...stains. Placental malaria infections ...
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Polymerase chain reaction and histology in diagnosis of placental malaria in an area of unstable malaria transmission in Central Sudan
... Therefore placental malaria infection may be detected in the absence of peripheral blood parasitemia ...[5,10]. Placental malaria infection is widely recognized as indicator for malaria ...
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Reduced risk for placental malaria in iron deficient women
... All these women received haematinics of iron (60 mg) and folic acid (5 mg) in short daily courses mostly in the second half of pregnancy. Women were not routi- nely screened for anaemia at first antenatal attendance or ...
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Comparison of the specificity of antibodies to VAR2CSA in Cameroonian multigravidae with and without placental malaria: a retrospective case–control study
... Goat anti-human IgG Fc fragment specific, Jackson Immunoresearch, West Grove, PA, USA, Cat no. 109- 116-170) diluted to 2 µg/ml in PBS-1 % BSA was added to each well and incubated as above in the dark for 1 h. Wells were ...
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