A principal target of human immunity to malaria identified by molecular population genetic and immunological analyses

Nature Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 689-692

  Conway, David J ^a   Cavanagh, David R ^e   Tanabe, Kazuyuki ^b   Roper, Cally ^a   Mikes, Zsuzsanna S ^a   Sakihama, Naoko ^b   Bojang, Kalifa A ^c   Oduola, Ayoade M J ^d   Kremsner, Peter G ^e   Arnot, David E ^e   Greenwood, Brian M ^a   Mcbride, Jana S ^e  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b OSAKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034095856     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/76272     Document Type: Article

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