Immunity to non-cerebral severe malaria is acquired after one or two infections

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 340-343

  Gupta, Sunetra ^a   Snow, Robert W ^b,c   Donnelly, Christl A ^a   Marsh, Kevin ^c,d   Newbold, Chris ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d KEMRI Coastal Research Unit   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATERNAL ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; CHILD; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0032977856     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/6560     Document Type: Article

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