Age-related buildup of humoral immunity against epitopes for rosette formation and agglutination in African areas of malaria endemicity

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 4783-4787

  Barragan, Antonio ^a   Kremsner, Peter G ^b,c   Weiss, Walter ^d   Wahlgren, Mats ^a,e   Carlson, Johan ^a,e  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c ALBERT SCHWEITZER HOSPITAL   (Gabon)

^d KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^e SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPITOPE MAPPING; GABON; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; KENYA; MALARIA; MEROZOITE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ROSETTE FORMATION;

EID: 0031663352     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.10.4783-4787.1998     Document Type: Article

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