Transmission-blocking immunity to Plasmodium falciparum in malaria-immune individuals is associated with antibodies to the gamete surface protein Pfs230

Parasitology

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 425-433

  Healer, J ^c   McGuinness, D ^a   Carter, R ^a   Riley, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c London Sch of Hyg and Trop Med ^*

Author keywords

Enhancement of transmission; Malariaendemic sera; Pfs230; Plasmodium falciparum; Transmission blocking immunity

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTISERUM; MALARIA VACCINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMETE; GAMETOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNITY; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITOSIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GAMBIA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

ANIMALIA; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032722428     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182099005041     Document Type: Article

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