Submicroscopic infection of placenta by Plasmodium produces Th1/Th2 cytokine imbalance, inflammation and hypoxia in women from north-west Colombia

BACKGROUND: A large-scale study was set up in order to study the epidemiology, clinical aspects, and immunopathology of gestational and placental malaria in north-west Colombia. In this region, recent reports using a qPCR technique, confirmed frequencies of infection, by Plasmodium falciparum or Pla...

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Main Authors: Agudelo, Olga M, Aristizabal, Beatriz H, Yanow, Stephanie K, Arango, Eliana, Carmona-Fonseca, Jaime, Maestre, Amanda
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3972514/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24673747
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-13-122
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