1. Case series of SARS‐COV‐2 infection in pregnant African women: focus on biological features
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Anicet Christel Maloupazoa Siawaya, Carene A. A. Ndong Sima, Jean-François Meye, Amel Kévin Alame-Emane, Armel Ndong Mintsa, Carinne Zang Eyi, Ofilia Mvoundza Ndjindji, Joel Fleury Djoba Siawaya, Ulysse Minkobame, Guy-Stéphane Padzys, and Amandine Mveang Nzoghe
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Procalcitonin ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Virology ,parasitic diseases ,Pandemic ,medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Young adult ,Letters to the Editor ,skin and connective tissue diseases ,Letter to the Editor ,Pregnancy ,biology ,business.industry ,fungi ,virus diseases ,Plasmodium falciparum ,medicine.disease ,biology.organism_classification ,Pancytopenia ,body regions ,Infectious Diseases ,Immunology ,Coinfection ,030211 gastroenterology & hepatology ,business ,Malaria - Abstract
COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing with devastating consequences. Here we investigated SARS-COV-2 infected pregnant African women and described their clinical and laboratory features. Inflammatory factors including complement C3c, Procalcitonin (PCT) and C-reactive protein (CRP) were elevated in SARS-CoV-2 infected pregnant women. Also, SARS-CoV-2 infected pregnant women are characterized by a stressed hepatobiliary function. The case concomitantly infected with SARS-COV-2 and Plasmodium falciparum had pancytopenia a condition characterized by the fall in the number of erythrocytes, leukocytes and thrombocytes. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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- 2021