This review
analyzes the issues regarding diagnosis and management of neonatal malaria with
an aim to provide physicians, clear and concise information about the diagnosis
and to emphasize the need to establish management guideline of neonatal malaria
in the clinical practice.
Malaria contributes significantly to perinatal
disease burden in terms of pregnancy loss, prematurity and intra-uterine growth
retardation (IUGR). Despite these well-documented indirect effects of malaria
to the fetus and newborn, the direct burden of neonatal malaria infection in
terms of prevalence and outcome is not well described in malaria endemic areas.
Studies published so far have documented contradictory levels of this burden.
Most of these studies were conducted in large referral or teaching hospitals,
and the results are difficult to generalize. Read more>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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