Submicroscopic Plasmodium falciparum infections during pregnancy, in an area of Sudan with a low intensity of malaria transmission

@article{Adam2005SubmicroscopicPF,
  title={Submicroscopic Plasmodium falciparum infections during pregnancy, in an area of Sudan with a low intensity of malaria transmission},
  author={Ishaq Adam and Ishraga Eltayeb Mohamed A-Elbasit and Isam Salih and Mustafa Idris Elbashir},
  journal={Annals of Tropical Medicine \& Parasitology},
  year={2005},
  volume={99},
  pages={339 - 344}
}
Abstract There are few published studies on the burden of malaria during pregnancy from areas of sub-Saharan Africa where the intensity of malarial transmission is low, and few on submicroscopic malarial infections in pregnant women. The present study was conducted in New Halfa, an area of low-intensity transmission in eastern Sudan, between August 2003 and July 2004. The main aims were to assess the prevalences of submicroscopic and multiple Plasmodium falciparum infections in pregnant women… 
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