Plasmodium falciparum: Membrane feeding assays and competition ELISAs for the measurement of transmission reduction in sera from cameroon

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 81-86

  Mulder, Bert ^a,b   Lensen, Ton ^a   Tchuinkam, Timoléon ^b,c   Roeffen, Will ^a   Verhave, Jan Peter ^a   Boudin, Christian ^b   Sauerwein, Robert ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Organisation de Coordination pour la Lutte contre les Endemies en Afrique Centrale Cameroon   (Cameroon)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DSCHANG   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Competition ELISA; Malaria; Membrane feeding assays; Pfs48 45; Plasmodium falciparum; Transmission blocking immunity

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; EPITOPE;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CAMEROON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GAMETOCYTE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; TROPHOZOITE;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032811557     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1999.4398     Document Type: Article

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