Antibody recognition of Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte surface antigens in Kenya: Evidence for rare and prevalent variants

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 733-739

  Bull, Peter C ^a,b   Lowe, Brett S ^a,b   Kortok, Moses ^a   Marsh, Kevin ^a,b  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROCYTE ANTIGEN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KENYA; MALARIA; PARASITE ISOLATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN VARIANT;

EID: 0032962341     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.2.733-739.1999     Document Type: Article

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