Research
Placental Malaria is associated with reduced early life weight development of affected children independent of low birth weight
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* Corresponding author: Brigitte Walther bwalther@mrc.gm
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1 MRC Laboratories, Atlantic Boulevard, Fajara, PO Box 273 Banjul, The Gambia
2 South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, and School of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Observatory, South Africa
3 MRC Epidemiology Resource Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK
4 Immunization Department, Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections, Colindale Avenue, London, UK
5 Adventist Community Services of Alaska, 6100 O'Malley Road, Anchorage, USA
6 Department of Pediatrics, Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, 1650 Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York, USA
7 Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit, Centre for Infectious Diseases Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands
8 MRC Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
Malaria Journal 2010, 9:16 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-9-16
Published: 14 January 2010Additional files
Additional file 1:
Risk factors for placental malaria for mothers delivering at maternity ward of Sukuta Health Centre from January 2002 to July 2005, multivariable analysis for 2002-04. The table provided represents the results of the statistical analysis assessing the risk factors for placental malaria (PM).
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Additional file 2:
Association of placental malaria with maternal anaemia and baby's characteristics at birth. The table in this file shows the results of the statistical analysis investigating if maternal and baby's outcome characteristics at birth were different between PM+ and PM- groups.
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