Nine-year longitudinal study of antibodies to variant antigens on the surface of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 4092-4098

  Giha, Haider A ^a,b,c,f   Staalsoe, Trine ^a,b   Dodoo, Daniel ^a,b,d   Elhassan, Ibrahim M ^c   Roper, Cally ^e   Satti, Gwiria M H ^c   Arnot, David E ^e   Theander, Thor G ^a,b   Hviid, Lars ^a,b  

^a Copenhagen University Hospital ^*  (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^d University of Ghana   (Ghana)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f International Center for Research and Research Training in Endocrine Disruption of Male Reproduction and Child Health   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TARGET CELL;

EID: 0032783026     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.8.4092-4098.1999     Document Type: Article

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