A need for new tools for prevention of malaria in pregnancy

Makoto Saito; Rose McGready

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1004729

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A need for new tools for prevention of malaria in pregnancy

Makoto Saito ,

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: makoto.saito@ndm.ox.ac.uk

Affiliations Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) and Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO), Oxford, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1667-9287

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Rose McGready

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Mae Ramat, Thailand
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A need for new tools for prevention of malaria in pregnancy

Makoto Saito,
Rose McGready

Published: September 19, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004729

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