A decade since sulfonamide-based anti-malarial medicines were limited for intermittent preventive treatment of malaria among pregnant women in Tanzania
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The use of intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for preventing malaria in pregnant women.
When a woman is pregnant, especially for the first and second times, she is susceptible to more frequent and severe malaria infections than when she was not pregnant. These infections are associated with maternal anemia, premature deliveries, and low birth weight infants. In areas where malaria is endemic, strategies to control malaria during pregnancy include preventive measures, such as the u...
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عنوان ژورنال: Malaria Journal
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1475-2875
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-018-2565-1