Keystone Symposia SciTalk 2017: Erika Francisca Garrido Zea

In collaboration with the Keystone Symposia, MESA brings you this SciTalk from the “Malaria: From Innovation to Eradication” conference in Uganda, February 2017

Title: “Evaluation of diagnostic strategies and the inclusion of placental malaria as potential etiology of low birth weight in newborns from an endemic area for malaria in Colombia”

Speaker: Erika Francisca Garrido Zea, UniRemington, Colombia

In February 2017, malaria experts from around the world gathered in Kampala, Uganda at “Malaria: From Innovation to Eradication“, a conference organized by Keystone Symposia in collaboration with MESA.  SciTalks are in-conference short talks and poster presentations recorded on video and shared on the Internet, and are designed to extend the reach of the science present within each Keystone Symposia conference.  

Read more about Erika’s work, and work that inspired her research:

International estimated fetal weight standards of the INTERGROWTH‐21st Project

J. Stirnemann, J. Villar, L.J.Salomon, E. Ohuma, P. Ruyan, D.G. Altman, F. Nosten, R. Craik, S. Munim, L. Cheikh Ismail, F.C. Barros, A. Lambert, S. Norris, M. Carvalho, Y.A. Jaffer, J.A.Noble, E.Bertino, M.G Gravett, M Purwar, C. Victora, R. Uauy, Z. Bhutta, S. Kennedy, A.T. Papageorghiou; Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2016

Iron, Inflammation, and Malaria in the Pregnant Woman and Her Child: Saving Lives, Saving Brains

S. Cusick, C. John; The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2016

Insight Into the Pathogenesis of Fetal Growth Restriction in Placental Malaria: Decreased Placental Glucose Transporter Isoform 1 Expression

U. Chandrasiri, C. Chua, A. Umbers, E. Chaluluka, J. Glazier, S. Rogerson, P. Boeuf; Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2013