In the study of Muehlenbachs et al on chronic placental malaria they identified reasons why a woman could experience multiple malarial episodes during a pregnancy. Women living along the Thai-Burma border reported up to 11 episodes during the 10 months of gestation. The authors are from the University of Washington in Seattle, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Shoklo Malaria Research Institute, Mahidol Oxford University Tropical Medicine Research Program, Natational Insittue of Medical Research in Tanzania and Churchill Hospital (Oxford).
