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Malaria in pregnancy

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Malaria
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In pregnant women, severe malaria is responsible for high maternal mortality, and uncomplicated malaria results in in high morbidity.
Professor Rose McGready works on the treatment and epidemiology of uncomplicated malaria in pregnancy. Pregnant women are particularly vulnerable as pregnancy reduces the immunity to malaria, increasing the susceptibility to malaria infection and the risk of illness, severe anaemia and death. For the unborn child, maternal malaria increases the risk of spontaneous abortion, stillbirth, premature delivery and low birth weight - a leading cause of child mortality.

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Malaria
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Rose McGready
Keywords
malaria
pregnancy
Epidemiology
anaemia
child mortality
Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Date Added: 04/02/2016
Duration: 00:07:17

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