Malaria can be fatal during pregnancy, posing a serious risk to both mothers and fetuses, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Primigravidae are particularly susceptible to placental malaria in areas ...

Malaria infections can be devastating for pregnant mothers, particularly during their first pregnancies. If malaria parasites invade the placenta, they can starve babies of nutrition, potentially ...

Placental malaria as a consequence of Plasmodium falciparum infections can lead to severe complications for both mother and child. Each year, placental malaria causes nearly 200,000 newborn deaths ...

Placental malaria as a consequence of Plasmodium falciparum infections can lead to severe complications for both mother and child. Each year, placental malaria causes nearly 200,000 newborn deaths, ...

Placental malaria infection during pregnancy significantly increases the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The very act of becoming pregnant creates a potentially deadly vulnerability to malaria. The placenta, the new organ that forms to nourish the fetus, presents new receptors for the disease to bind to.

Subsequently, they observed a diminished transfer of glucose across the gel barrier: reproducing a key feature of placental malaria. This successful result shows that the placenta-on-a-chip could ...

Placental malaria as a consequence of Plasmodium falciparum infections can lead to severe complications for both mother and child. Each year, placental malaria causes nearly 200,000 newborn deaths ...

In Cox regression analyses of the time to the first episode of severe malaria, placental malaria and maternal parity were combined as one variable, because these factors interact to influence the ...

Recently, Gamain and his team showed that an enzyme from both RBCs and parasites help phosphorylate this surface protein. 4 The findings, published in PLoS Pathogens, provide new molecular insights ...

Malaria infections can be devastating for pregnant mothers, particularly during their first pregnancies. If malaria parasites invade the placenta, they can starve babies of nutrition, potentially ...