Title |
Prevalence of gestational, placental and congenital malaria in north-west Colombia
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Published in |
Malaria Journal, September 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1475-2875-12-341 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Olga Agudelo, Eliana Arango, Amanda Maestre, Jaime Carmona-Fonseca |
Abstract |
The frequency of pregnancy-associated malaria is increasingly being documented in American countries. In Colombia, with higher frequency of Plasmodium vivax over Plasmodium falciparum infection, recent reports confirmed gestational malaria as a serious public health problem. Thick smear examination is the gold standard to diagnose malaria in endemic settings, but in recent years, molecular diagnostic methods have contributed to elucidate the dimension of the problem of gestational malaria. The study was aimed at exploring the prevalence of gestational, placental and congenital malaria in women who delivered at the local hospitals of north-west Colombia, between June 2008 and April 2011. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 1 | 17% |
Colombia | 1 | 17% |
Unknown | 4 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 5 | 83% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Brazil | 2 | 2% |
United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 110 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Master | 18 | 16% |
Student > Bachelor | 18 | 16% |
Other | 9 | 8% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 8% |
Researcher | 8 | 7% |
Other | 27 | 24% |
Unknown | 24 | 21% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 32 | 28% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 14 | 12% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 7 | 6% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 7 | 6% |
Immunology and Microbiology | 6 | 5% |
Other | 19 | 17% |
Unknown | 28 | 25% |