Table 1.

Summary of pregnancy characteristics in Plasmodium berghei Anka infected mice and control mice at GD18.5.

	Mice (n)	Maternal weight gain (g)	Maternal spleen weight (mg)	Litter size	% Fetal death	% PTD	Placental weight (mg)	Fetal weight (mg)	F:P weight ratio
Control	12	6.5 ± 0.3	79.8 ± 3.4	5.4 ± 0.8	0 (0/80)	0 (0/12)	82.2 ± 0.8	1123 ± 47.5	13.6 ± 0.6
Malaria	20	3.78 ± 0.8*	153.8 ± 10.4****	5.7 ± 1.2	1 (1/99)	20 (4/20)	83.4 ± 0.1	843.9 ± 55.85**	9.71 ± 0.84**

Values are expressed as the mean ± SEM. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01 and ****P < 0.0001.