A morphometric and histological study of placental malaria shows significant changes to villous architecture in both Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax infection

BACKGROUND: Malaria in pregnancy remains a major health problem. Placental malaria infection may cause pathophysiological changes in pregnancy and result in morphological changes to placental villi. Quantitative histomorphological image analysis of placental biopsies was performed to compare placent...

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Những tác giả chính: Chaikitgosiyakul, S, Rijken, M, Muehlenbachs, A, Lee, S, Chaisri, U, Viriyavejakul, P, Turner, G, Pongponratn, E, Nosten, F, McGready, R
Định dạng: Journal article
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: BioMed Central 2014