Recognition of variant rifin antigens by human antibodies induced during natural Plasmodium falciparum infections

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 7013-7021

  Abdel Latif, Mohamed S ^a   Khattab, Ayman ^a   Lindenthal, Christoph ^a   Kremsner, Peter G ^a,b   Klinkert, Mo Quen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b ALBERT SCHWEITZER HOSPITAL   (Gabon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RIFIN ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENICITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHOZOITE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0036892283     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.70.12.7013-7021.2002     Document Type: Article

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