ArticleThe Journal of infectious diseases2018
Etiology of Placental Plasmodium falciparum Malaria in African Women.
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- Efficacy of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine to prevent malaria and complication-related malaria during pregnancy compared to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression.Epidemiology and infection · 2026Pooled it
- Prevalence of malaria and hepatitis B among pregnant women in Northern Ghana: Comparing RDTs with PCR.PloS one · 2019Trial
- VAR2CSA-reactive IgG in Brazilian women exposed toInfection and immunity · 2025Article
- Fc-Afucosylation of VAR2CSA-Specific Immunoglobulin G and Clinical Immunity to Placental Plasmodium falciparum Malaria.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Malaria elimination in Ghana: recommendations for reactive case detection strategy implementation in a low endemic area of Asutsuare, Ghana.Malaria journal · 2024Review
- PfEMP1 and var genes - Still of key importance in Plasmodium falciparum malaria pathogenesis and immunity.Advances in parasitology · 2024Review
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- Serology reveals micro-differences inFrontiers in parasitology · 2023Article
- Afucosylated Plasmodium falciparum-specific IgG is induced by infection but not by subunit vaccination.Nature communications · 2021Article
- A Genotyping Study in Benin Comparing the Carriage of Plasmodium falciparum Infections Before Pregnancy and in Early Pregnancy: Story of a Persistent Infection.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021Article
- Predictors of placental malaria in Upper West Regional Hospital-Ghana.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2021Article
- Suitability of IgG responses to multiple Plasmodium falciparum antigens as markers of transmission intensity and pattern.PloS one · 2021Article
- Placental Malaria.Current tropical medicine reports · 2020Review
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Abstract
Plasmodium falciparum parasites causing placental malaria express the VAR2CSA type of the clonally variant antigen family erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1). This enables evasion of preexisting immunity and results in placental accumulation of infected erythrocytes. We present data on seasonal variation in levels of VAR2CSA-specific immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgG specific for a placental malaria-unrelated PfEMP1 protein among Ghanaian women at their first antenatal visit. Our results indicate that placental malaria does not require recent exposure to infected mosquitoes, in contrast to malaria in general. This has implications for the impact of insecticide-treated bed nets on placental malaria incidence and for antenatal care in woman with preexisting immunity.
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