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ArticleInfection and immunity2018

Clinical Outcomes of Submicroscopic Infections and Correlates of Protection of VAR2CSA Antibodies in a Longitudinal Study of Pregnant Women in Colombia.

Kenneth Gavina, Sedami Gnidehou, Eliana Arango, Chloe Hamel-Martineau, Catherine Mitran, Olga Agudelo, Carolina Lopez, Aisha Karidio, Shanna Banman, Jaime Carmona-Fonseca and 5 more

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Article in Infection and immunity, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Current update on malaria in pregnancy: a systematic review.Tropical diseases, travel medicine and vaccines · 2025
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  15. VAR2CSA-Mediated Host Defense Evasion ofFrontiers in immunology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Kenneth GavinaDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Sedami GnidehouDepartment of Biology, Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Eliana ArangoGrupo Salud y Comunidad, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
Chloe Hamel-MartineauDepartment of Biology, Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Catherine MitranSchool of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Olga AgudeloGrupo Salud y Comunidad, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
Carolina LopezGrupo Salud y Comunidad, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
Aisha KaridioDepartment of Biology, Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Shanna BanmanSchool of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Jaime Carmona-FonsecaGrupo Salud y Comunidad, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
Ali SalantiCentre for Medical Parasitology at Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Nicaise Tuikue NdamUniversity of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.
Michael HawkesDepartment of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Amanda MaestreGrupo Salud y Comunidad, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
Stephanie K YanowDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada yanow@ualberta.ca.
University of Alberta · CAUniversidad de Antioquia · COUniversity of Copenhagen · DKUniversity of Ghana · GH

Funding

CIHR
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Malaria in pregnancy can cause serious adverse outcomes for the mother and the fetus. However, little is known about the effects of submicroscopic infections (SMIs) in pregnancy, particularly in areas where

Indexed as

anemiaantibodiesColombiamalariaPlasmodium falciparumPlasmodium vivaxpregnancysubmicroscopicVAR2CSA

Identifiers

PMID29378797
PMCPMC5865023
OpenAlexW2787058498

What Socratic holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.