Placental Malaria: A New Insight into the Pathophysiology

Malaria in pregnancy poses a great health risk to mother and her fetus and results into complications, such as abortion, still birth, intra uterine growth retardation, and low birth weight. The heavy infiltration of Plasmodium falciparum-infected RBCs in the intervillous spaces of placenta seems to...

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Main Authors: Lalita Sharma, Geeta Shukla
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Medicine
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmed.2017.00117/full