Abstract:BackgroundPregnant women are particularly vulnerable to malaria infections, increasing the risk of maternal-foetal complications, mainly in areas of high endemicity. However, few studies of malaria in pregnancy (MiP) have been carried out in Latin America, a region with low endemicity and transmission of both, Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax. Despite the high malaria burden in Venezuela in the last years, no recent studies of MiP have been conducted. Hence, epidemiological and clinical characteristics of pr… Show more
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