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Imported malaria in pregnant women: report from a French University Centre
- Source :
- Infection. 46(1)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- To describe malaria during pregnancy outside endemic areas. We retrospectively reviewed all cases of imported malaria during pregnancy, diagnosed over a 11-year period in a French hospital. We recovered 18 cases, all from sub-Saharan countries. The infection could appear distantly from arrival in France (up to 36 months), was asymptomatic in 3 cases, with anemia being the most common marker of infection (n = 14). The adverse consequences for the fetus (n = 3) or the newborn (n = 4) were frequent. Physicians should be aware of these atypical presentations in order to anticipate the diagnosis and improve the maternal and fetal prognosis.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Microbiology (medical)
Adult
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
Anemia
030231 tropical medicine
030106 microbiology
Asymptomatic
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Communicable Diseases, Imported
Pregnancy
medicine
Humans
Young adult
Africa South of the Sahara
Retrospective Studies
business.industry
Retrospective cohort study
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Malaria
Low birth weight
Infectious Diseases
Pregnancy Complications, Parasitic
Chemoprophylaxis
Female
France
medicine.symptom
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14390973
- Volume :
- 46
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Infection
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....da85a984b2d6e0b2d114db4eded1a4f7