Adverse pregnancy outcomes are associated with Plasmodium vivax malaria in a prospective cohort of women from the Brazilian Amazon.
Jamille Gregório DombrowskiAndré BarateiroErika Paula Machado PeixotoAndré Boler Cláudio da Silva BarrosRodrigo Medeiros de SouzaTaane Gregory ClarkSusana CampinoCarsten WrengerGerhard WunderlichGiuseppe PalmisanoSabrina EpiphanioLígia Antunes GonçalvesClaudio Romero Farias MarinhoPublished in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases (2021)
This study indicates that P. vivax malaria during the first trimester of pregnancy represents a higher likelihood of subsequent poor pregnancy outcomes associated with marked placental histologic modification and angiogenic/inflammatory imbalance. Additionally, our findings support the idea that antibodies against PvMSP119 are not protective against poor pregnancy outcomes induced by P. vivax infections.