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- Title
Effect of pregnancy on exposure to malaria mosquitoes.
- Authors
Lindsay, S; Ansell, J; Selman, C; Cox, V; Hamilton, K; Walraven, G
- Abstract
Pregnant women attracted twice the number of Anopheles gambiae complex--the predominant African malaria-carrying mosquito--than did their non-pregnant counterparts. We postulate that physiological and behavioural changes that occur during pregnancy are responsible for increased attractiveness, which could be important in intervention strategies aimed at protecting this high-risk group against malaria.
- Publication
Lancet (London, England), 2000, Vol 355, Issue 9219, p1972
- ISSN
0140-6736
- Publication type
Research
- DOI
10.1016/S0140-6736(00)02334-5