Unger, Holger
Thriemer, Kamala http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7536-7497
Ley, Benedikt
Tinto, Halidou
Traoré, Maminata
Valea, Innocent
Tagbor, Harry
Antwi, Gifty
Gbekor, Prosper
Nambozi, Michael
Kabuya, Jean-Bertin Bukasa
Mulenga, Modest
Mwapasa, Victor
Chapotera, Gertrude
Madanitsa, Mwayiwawo
Rulisa, Stephen
de Crop, Maaike
Claeys, Yves
Ravinetto, Raffaella
D’Alessandro, Umberto
Funding for this research was provided by:
European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership
Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium
Belgisch Ontwikkelingsagentschap
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Medical Research Council
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Sanofi-Aventis
Article History
Received: 7 September 2017
Accepted: 29 November 2018
First Online: 8 January 2019
Competing interest
: Umberto D’Alessandro reports receiving grant support from Sigma-Tau Industrie Farmaceutiche Riunite. Stephen Rulisa is an Associate Editor at BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. No other potential conflict of interest was reported.
: The main trial was approved by the ethics committee at the Antwerp University Hospital, the Institutional Review Board of the ITM, Antwerp, Belgium, the Institutional Ethical Committee of the Centre Muraz and the Ethical Committee of the Ministry of Health, Burkina Faso, the Ghana Health Service Ethics Review Committee and the Committee on Human Research, Publication and Ethics, Kumasi University Ghana, the Institutional Ethical Board of the College of Medicine (COMREC), Blantyre, Malawi, the Institutional Ethics Review Committee of the Tropical Diseases Research Centre (TDRC) Ndola, Zambia. Written informed consent was provided before enrollment by all participants.
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