Acquired immunity and postnatal clinical protection in childhood cerebral malaria

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1414, 1999, Pages 33-38

  Gupta, Sunetra ^a   Snow, Robert W ^a,b   Donnelly, Christl ^a   Newbold, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Cerebral malaria; Clinical immunity; Plasmodium falciparum; Postnatal protection; Strain specific immunity

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNITY; MALARIA;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0033531126     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0600     Document Type: Article

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