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Diagnosis of placental malaria
Frank P Mockenhaupt1, Ulrike Ulmen, Christiane von Gaertner
1Institute of Tropical Medicine, Charité, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. frank.mockenhaupt@charite.de
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|January 5, 2002
Abstract:
In a group of 596 delivering Ghanaian women, the sensitivities of peripheral blood thick film microscopy, ICT Malaria P.f/P.v test, and PCR in detecting microscopically confirmed placental Plasmodium falciparum infection were 42, 80, and 97%, respectively. In addition to the gross underestimation of placental malaria by peripheral blood film microscopy, submicroscopic infections were found to be a risk factor for maternal anemia.