Parasite antigens on the infected red cell surface are targets for naturally acquired immunity to malaria

Nature Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 358-360

  Bull, Peter C ^a,b   Lowe, Breit S ^a,b   Kortok, Moses ^a   Molyneux, Catherine S ^a   Newbold, Christopher I ^a,b   Marsh, Kevin ^a,b  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE FACTORS; AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BLOOD PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; INFANT; KENYA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; ODDS RATIO; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0031893942     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0398-358     Document Type: Article

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