References & Relevant Publications

Study publications

  • Castellanos ME, Bardají A, Menegon M, Mayor A, Desai M, Severini C, Menéndez C and Padilla N. Plasmodium vivax congenital malaria in an area of very low endemicity in Guatemala: implications for clinical and epidemiological surveillance in a malaria elimination context. Mal J. 2012, 11:411 
  • Mayor A, Bardají A, Felger I, King CL, Cisteró P, Dobaño C, Stanisic DI, Siba P, Wahlgren M, del Portillo H, Mueller I, Menéndez C, Ordi J, and Rogerson S. Placental infection with Plasmodium vivax: a histopathological and molecular study. J Infect Dis. (2012) 206(12): 1904-1910
  • Marín-Menéndez A, Bardaji A, Martínez-Espinosa FE, Bôtto-Menezes C, Lacerda MV, Ortiz J, Cisteró P, Piqueras M, Felger I, Mueller I, Ordi J, del Portillo H, Menéndez C, Wahlgren M, and Mayor A. Rosetting in Plasmodium vivax: A Cytoadhesion Phenotype Associated with Anaemia. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 7(4):e2155
  • Requena P, Campo JJ, Umbers AJ, Ome M, Wangnapi R, Barrios D, Robinson LJ, Samol P, Rosanas-Urgell A, Ubillos I, Mayor A, López M, de Lazzari E, Arévalo-Herrera M, Fernández-Becerra C, Del Portillo H, Chitnis CE, Siba PM, Bardají A, Mueller I, Rogerson S, Menéndez C, Dobaño C. Pregnancy and Malaria Exposure Are Associated with Changes in the B Cell Pool and in Plasma Eotaxin Levels. J Immunol. 2014 Aug 18. pii: 1401037. [Epub ahead of print]

 

References

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  • Lee SJ, McGready R, Fernandez C, Stepniewska K, Paw MK, Viladpai-nguen SJ, Thwai KL, Villegas L, Sighasivanon P, Greenwood BM, White NJ, Nosten F. Chloroquine pharmacokinetics in pregnant and nonpregnant women with vivax malaria. Eur J Clin Pharmacol. 2008 Oct;64(10): 987-92. Epub 2008 Jul 2.
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  • Desai, M., ter Kuile, F.O., Nosten, F., McGready, R., Asamoa, K., Brabin, B., and Newman, R.D. Epidemiology and burden of malaria in pregnancy. Lancet Infect Dis 2007; 7(2): 93-104.
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  • Cheng Q, Barragan A, Fernandez V, Sundstrom A, Schlichtherle M, Sahlen A, Carlson J, Datta S, Wahlgren M Identification of Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1) as the rosetting ligand of the malaria parasite P. falciparum.J Exp Med. 1998;187(1):15-23.
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