Pregnancy causes physiological and immunological adaptations that allow the mother and
fetus to communicate with precision in order to promote a healthy pregnancy. At the same …

Pregnant women in malaria-endemic regions are susceptible to malaria in pregnancy, which
has adverse consequences on birth outcomes, including having small for gestational age …

Anemia is a multifactorial condition; approaches to address it must recognize that the causal
factors represent an ecology consisting of internal (biology, genetics, and health) and …

Infections with Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax cause over 600,000 deaths
each year, concentrated in Africa and in young children, but much of the world's population …

In areas where Plasmodium falciparum transmission is endemic, clinical immunity against
malaria is progressively acquired during childhood and adults are usually protected against …

Abstract Purpose of Review Placental malaria is the primary mechanism through which
malaria in pregnancy causes adverse perinatal outcomes. This review summarizes recent …

Background Antibody-mediated complement fixation has previously been associated with
protection against malaria in naturally acquired immunity. However, the process of early-life …

Acting as the primary link between mother and fetus, the placenta is involved in regulating
nutrient, oxygen, and waste exchange; thus, healthy placental development is crucial for a …

Introduction A vaccine would greatly accelerate current global efforts toward malaria
elimination. While a partially efficacious vaccine has been achieved for Plasmodium …

Background: Entomological surveillance for malaria is inherently resource-intensive and
produces crude population-level measures of vector exposure which are insensitive in low …