Malaria and Newborns
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Risk of hearing alterations in newborns of mothers treated for malaria.
INTRODUCTION The antimalarial drugs can cause irreversible sensorineural hearing loss, and chloroquine phosphate use can be ototoxic to the fetus. OBJECTIVE To compare the results of hearing screening in newborns of mothers treated for malaria in pregnancy with the results of newborns of mothers untreated and check for increased risk of hearing alterations in the group exposed to treatment. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1465-3664,0142-6338
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/49.3.132