Placental malaria and low birth weight in pregnant women living in a rural area of Burkina Faso following the use of three preventive treatment regimens
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The weekly chemoprophylaxis of malaria during pregnancy with chloroquine (CQ) has become problematic with the increasing resistance of <it>Plasmodium falciparum </it>to this drug. There was a need to test the benefits of...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2009-10-01
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Series: | Malaria Journal |
Online Access: | http://www.malariajournal.com/content/8/1/224 |