Antibodies to variant antigens on the surfaces of infected erythrocytes are associated with protection from malaria in Ghanaian children

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 3713-3718

  Dodoo, D ^a   Staalsoe, T ^a   Giha, H ^a   Kurtzhals, J A L ^a   Akanmori, B D ^a   Koram, K ^a   Dunyo, S ^a   Nkrumah, F K ^a   Hviid, L ^a   Theander, T G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROCYTE ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROPREVALENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ERYTHROCYTES; GHANA; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 0035013082     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.6.3713-3718.2001     Document Type: Article

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