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Association of Malaria Infection During Pregnancy With Head Circumference of Newborns in the Brazilian Amazon

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2019

Year

Jamille Gregório Dombrowski, Rodrigo Medeiros de Souza, Flávia Afonso Lima, Carla Letícia Bandeira, Oscar Murillo, Douglas de Sousa Costa, Erika Paula Machado Peixoto, Marielton dos Passos Cunha, Paolo Marinho de Andrade Zanotto, Estela Bevilacqua,
JAMA Network Open

Abstract

This study indicates that falciparum malaria during pregnancy is associated with decreased head circumference in newborns, which is in turn associated with evidence of placental malaria.

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