Table 2.

Prevalence of congenital malaria as detected by qPCR.

Mother-child pairs	Congenital malaria
	Cases detected	Prevalence (95% CI)	P-value*
Total mother-child pairs (n = 400)	16	4 (2.4–6.5)	—
Maternal peripheral infection
Positive (n = 128)	14	10.9 (6.1–17.7)	<0.001
Negative (n = 262)	2	0.8 (0.1–2.7)
Placental infection
Positive (n = 137)	14	10.2 (5.7–16.6)	<0.001
Negative (n = 259)	1	0.4 (0.0–2.1)
Mother-child pairs according to gravidity
Primigravidae (n = 68)	3	4.4 (0.9–12.4)	0.980
Secundigravidae (n = 74)	3	4.1 (0.8–11.4)
Multigravidae (n = 258)	10	3.9 (1.9–7.0)

^* P value determined by Fisher’s exact test.

CI, confidence interval.