Abstract

Impressive gains have been achieved in malaria control, but with reduced exposure comes delayed acquisition of immunity. Pregnant women and their offspring are unusually vulnerable to this disease. To examine the consequences of decreased malaria transmission on pregnant women, investigators assessed the prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum infection in Mozambican women who delivered infants between 2003 and 2012, a period of marked decline in such transmission. …

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