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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 74(5), 2006, pp. 755-757
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PREGNANCY OUTCOMES ASSOCIATED WITH PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA IN NORTHEASTERN VENEZUELA

ALFONSO J. RODRIGUEZ-MORALES, ELIA SANCHEZ, MIGUEL VARGAS, CARMELINA PICCOLO, ROSA COLINA, MELISSA ARRIA, AND CARLOS FRANCO-PAREDES*
Instituto Experimental José Witremundo Torrealba, Universidad de Los Andes, Trujillo, Venezuela; Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital Santos Anibal Dominicci, Carúpano, Sucre, Venezuela; Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; Hospital Infantil de Mexico, Federico Gómez, Mexico City, Mexico

 

ABSTRACT

Although Plasmodium vivax is increasingly recognized as an important cause of morbidity in pregnancy in low malaria–transmission areas of Asia, little is know about the epidemiologic and clinical profiles of P. vivax in pregnant women in Latin America. We describe the clinical features and pregnancy outcomes in a series of 12 cases of P. vivax malaria in pregnant women complicated in some by miscarriage or preterm deliveries and in others with significant degrees of anemia and thrombocytopenia in a population where P. vivax is endemic in northeastern Venezuela.

Received September 29, 2005. Accepted for publication November 29, 2005.

Acknowledgments: This work was previously presented in part at XIV National Infectious Diseases Meeting, Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, November 2003 (abstract 57).

Disclosure: None of the authors have any conflicts of interest.

* Address correspondence to Carlos Franco-Paredes, Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University, 69 Jesse Hill Jr. Drive, Atlanta, GA 30303. E-mail: cfranco{at}sph.emory.edu

Authors’ addresses: Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales, Instituto Experimental José Witremundo Torrealba, Universidad de Los Andes, Trujillo, Venezuela. Elia Sanchez, Miguel Vargas, Carmelina Piccolo, Rosa Colina, and Melissa Arria, Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital Santos Anibal Dominicci, Carúpano, Sucre, Venezuela. Carlos Franco-Paredes, Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University, 69 Jess Hill Jr. Drive, Atlanta, GA 30303, and Hospital Infantil de Mexico, Federico Gómez, Mexico City, Mexico, Telephone: 404-616-3600, Fax: 404-880-9305, E-mail: cfranco{at}sph.emory.edu.




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