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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology Volume 2012, Article ID 198317, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2012/198317 Research Article Asymptomatic Malaria Correlates with Anaemia in Pregnant Women at Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Zoenabo Douamba,1, 2 Cyrille Bisseye,1, 3 Florencia W. Djigma,1, 2 ´ 1 ´ 1 1, 2 Tegwinde R. Compaore, Valerie Jean Telesphore Bazie, Virginio Pietra, Jean-Baptiste Nikiema,1, 2 and Jacques Simpore1, 2 1 Biomolecular Research Center Pietro Annigoni (CERBA), Labiogene, UFR/SVT, University of Ouagadougou, 01 BP 364, Ouagadougou 01, Burkina Faso 2 Saint Camille Medical Centre, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 3 Department of Biology, University of Sciences and Techniques of Masuku (USTM), Franceville, Gabon Correspondence should be addressed to Cyrille Bisseye, cbisseye@ Received 21 September 2012; Revised 14 October 2012; Accepted 15 October 2012 Academic Editor: Kazim Husain Copyright © 2012 Zoenabo Douamba et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Sub-Saharan Africa records each year about thirty-two million pregnant women living in areas of high transmission of Plasmodium falciparum causing malaria. The aim of this study was to carve out the prevalence of asymptomatic malaria among pregnant women and to emphasize its influence on haematological markers. The prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum asymptomatic infection among pregnant women was 30% and 24% with rapid detection test (RDT) and microsco