Fig. 1

Categories of prenatal malaria exposure (PME). Pregnant women infected during pregnancy with placental malaria (PM; acute, chronic, or past) or without PM (exposed/no PM) were recruited from both COSMIC study arms [37]. Pregnant women included in the non-exposed control group were only recruited among the CSST/IPTp-SP intervention arm: all of them had negative RDT/LM results for malaria infection in monthly screenings and at antenatal care visits that were later on confirmed by qPCR and, with no evidence of placental malaria