Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3421416 | Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 2006 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
SummarySchistosomiasis among pregnant women has been inadequately investigated. In order to determine the importance of Schistosoma mansoni in this subgroup, we conducted a cross-sectional survey of 972 women in Tanzania and investigated the prevalence of Schistosoma mansoni, hookworm and malaria and their associations with anaemia. Overall, 63.5% of women were infected with S. mansoni, with prevalence highest among younger women and decreasing with increasing age. The prevalence of hookworm was 56.3%, and 16.4% of women had malaria parasitaemia. Overall, 66.4% of women were anaemic. Increased risk of anaemia was associated with heavy infection with S. mansoni but not hookworm or Plasmodium falciparum parasitaemia.
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Authors
Antony Ajanga, Nicholas J.S. Lwambo, Lynsey Blair, Ursuline Nyandindi, Alan Fenwick, Simon Brooker,