Impact of helminth infection during pregnancy on cognitive and motor functions of one-year-old children.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the effect of helminth infection during pregnancy on the cognitive and motor functions of one-year-old children.

Methods

Six hundred and thirty five singletons born to pregnant women enrolled before 29 weeks of gestation in a trial comparing two intermittent preventive treatments for malaria were assessed for cognitive and motor functions using the Mullen Scales of Early Learning, in the TOVI study, at twelve months of age in the district of Allada in Benin. Stool samples of pregnant women were collected at recruitment, second antenatal care (ANC) visit (at least one month after recruitment) and just before delivery, and were tested for helminths using the Kato-Katz technique. All pregnant women were administered a total of 600 mg of mebendazole (100 m

SUBMITTER: Mireku MO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4355614 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature