Pregnant women carrying female fetuses are at higher risk of placental malaria infection.
Abdelmageed ElmugabilMagdi M SalihAhmed A MohmmedDuria A RayisMustafa I ElbashirPublished in: PloS one (2017)
Fetal gender may be a novel risk factor for placental malaria. In this work the female placentas were at higher risk for malaria infections than the male placentas.