Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition (M3) initiative, a pooled birth cohort of 13 pregnancy studies in Africa and the Western Pacific.

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Published in BMJ Open on December 21, 2016

Authors

Holger W Unger1,2, Jordan E Cates3, Julie Gutman4, Valerie Briand5,6, Nadine Fievet5,6, Innocent Valea7,8, Halidou Tinto7,8, Umberto d'Alessandro9,10,11, Sarah H Landis12, Seth Adu-Afarwuah13, Kathryn G Dewey14, Feiko Ter Kuile15, Stephanie Dellicour15, Peter Ouma16, Laurence Slutsker4, Dianne J Terlouw17, Simon Kariuki16, John Ayisi16, Bernard Nahlen18, Meghna Desai4, Mwayi Madanitsa19, Linda Kalilani-Phiri15,19, Per Ashorn20,21, Kenneth Maleta19, Ivo Mueller22, Danielle Stanisic23, Christentze Schmiegelow24, John Lusingu24,25, Daniel Westreich3, Anna Maria van Eijk15, Steven Meshnick3, Stephen Rogerson2

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, UK.
2: Department of Medicine at the Doherty Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
3: Department of Epidemiology, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
4: Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
5: Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Mère et enfant face aux infections tropicales (UMR216), Paris, France.
6: COMUE Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.
7: Unite de Recherche Clinique de Nanoro, Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé-DRO, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.
8: Departement de Recherche Clinique, Centre Muraz, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.
9: Medical Research Council Unit, The Gambia.
10: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.
11: Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
12: Worldwide Epidemiology, GlaxoSmithKline, Uxbridge, UK.
13: Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana.
14: Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, California, USA.
15: Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
16: Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)/Center for Global Health Research, Kisumu, Kenya.
17: Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
18: President's Malaria Initiative, Washington DC, USA.
19: School of Public Health and Family Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi.
20: Tampere Center for Child Health Research, Tampere, Finland.
21: Department for Pediatrics, University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.
22: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
23: Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
24: Faculty of Health Science, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Centre for Medical Parasitology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
25: National Institute for Medical Research, Tanga Centre, Tanga, Tanzania.

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