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For the journal "Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology"
 2 articles found

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For the journal "Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology"
 2 articles found

 Cholera
Cholera Infection Risks and Cholera Vaccine Safety in Pregnancy

Published on 09/01/2024 |  Original article (Abstract)  | El Hayek Pamela et al. | Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology 2023 (2023), Article ID 4563797, 8 pages 4 min.

Cholera is a serious infectious disease caused by toxigenic serogroups O1 and O139 of Vibrio cholerae, a curved Gram-negative bacilli. Fecal contamination of water sources and food is the main route of transmission of this disease [1]. Via activating adenylate cyclase, cholera toxin (CT) is...

 Malaria
Prevention of Malaria in Pregnancy: What Do the Pregnant Women of Nigeria Know and Do about It?

Published on 11/12/2022 |  Original article (Abstract)  | Kalu Stephen et al. | Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology 2022 (2022), Article ID 7061548, 8 pages 5 min.

Worldwide, about three billion people have a risk of contracting malaria, and about 400 million cases and 900,000 deaths from malaria have been seen in recent times [1]. The majority of these appear in sub-Saharan African region [2]. We have five Plasmodium species that are particularly threatening to...