Intestinal Parasitic Infections Among Pregnant Women in Venezuela
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Intestinal Parasitic Infections among Pregnant Women in Venezuela
INTRODUCTION Intestinal parasitic infections, especially due to helminths, increase anemia in pregnant women. The results of this are low pregnancy weight gain and IUGR, followed by LBW, with its associated greater risks of infection and higher perinatal mortality rates. For these reasons, in the setting of no large previous studies in Venezuela about this problem, a national multicentric study...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1064-7449,1098-0997
DOI: 10.1155/idog/2006/23125