Parasite features impeding malaria immunity: antigen diversity, antigenic variation and poor immunogenicity

Research in Immunology

Volumn 142, Issue 8, 1991, Pages 690-697

  Mercereau Puijalon, O ^a   Fandeur, T ^a   Guillotte, M ^a   Bonnefoy, S ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGENICITY; MALARIA; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

ANIMAL; ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY REACTIONS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; MALARIA; MUTATION; PLASMODIUM; POLYMORPHISM (GENETICS); SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0026315405     PISSN: 09232494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0923-2494(91)90151-8     Document Type: Article

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