Malaria transmission and fetal growth
| Autor: | J. D. Macgregor, J. G. Avery |
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| Rok vydání: | 1974 |
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Pediatrics
Placenta Plasmodium malariae Growth Pregnancy Birth Weight Child General Environmental Science education.field_of_study Transmission (medicine) Obstetrics General Engineering Obstetrics and Gynecology Gestational age General Medicine Birth order medicine.anatomical_structure Child Preschool Female medicine.medical_specialty Birth weight Population Plasmodium falciparum Developing country Gestational Age Biology Insect Control Fetus Obstetric Labor Premature parasitic diseases Anopheles medicine Humans Adverse effect education business.industry Papers and Originals biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Child development Infant mortality Insect Vectors Malaria Communicable Disease Control General Earth and Planetary Sciences Melanesia Birth Order business Plasmodium vivax |
| Zdroj: | British medical journal. 3(5928) |
| ISSN: | 0007-1447 |
| Popis: | In view of the known relation between infection of the maternal circulation of the placenta with Plasmodium falciparum and impaired fetal growth a study was made of the effect on birth weights of a malaria eradication campaign in the British Solomon Islands. Mean birth weights rose substantially within months of starting antimalarial operations. The increases between 1969 and 1971 averaged 252 g in babies of primigravidae and 165 g in all babies. The proportion of babies with birth weights of less than 2,500 g fell by 8% overall and by 20% among babies of primigravidae. The adverse effect of malaria transmission on fetal growth was apparently reversible if transmission of infection in the community was interrupted up to as late as the third trimester of pregnancy. The beneficial effects of malaria eradication operations on infant survival, child development, and social attitudes in developing countries are discussed. |
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