Haemoglobin C protects against clinical Plasmodium falciparum malaria

Nature

Volumn 414, Issue 6861, 2001, Pages 305-308

  Modiano, David ^a,b   Luoni, Gaia ^a   Sirima, Bienvenu Sodiomon ^c   Simporé, Jacques ^d   Verra, Federica ^b   Konaté, Amadou ^c   Rastrelli, Elena ^a   Olivieri, Anna ^a   Calissano, Carlo ^a   Paganotti, Giacomo Maria ^a   D'Urbano, Leila ^a   Sanou, Issa ^e   Sawadogo, Alphonse ^e   Modiano, Guido ^f   Coluzzi, Mario ^a,b  

^a WHO Collaborating Centre for Malaria Epidemiology and Control   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c Centre National de Recherche et Formation sur le Paludisme   (Italy)

^d Centre Medical Saint Camille   (Italy)

^e CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE YALGADO OUÉDRAOGO   (Burkina Faso)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

GENOTYPES;

GENES;

HEMOGLOBIN C;

MALARIA;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BURKINA FASO; CELL PROTECTION; CHILD; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; BURKINA FASO; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GENE FREQUENCY; HEMOGLOBIN C; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

AFRICA;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0035891266     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35104556     Document Type: Article

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