Humoral immune response of Africans to cysteine protease-related antigens of Plasmodium falciparum

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 285-288

  Gor, Dennis O ^a   Rosenthal, Philip J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY; SERINE REPEAT ANTIGEN, PLASMODIUM; SERP H ANTIGEN, PLASMODIUM;

ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; MALE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BLOOD; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0031595712     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/517455     Document Type: Article

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