Geographical and temporal conservation of antibody recognition of Plasmodium falciparum variant surface antigens

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3531-3535

  Nielsen, Morten A ^a   Vestergaard, Lasse S ^a   Lusingu, John ^b   Kurtzhals, Jørgen A L ^a   Giha, Haider A ^c   Grevstad, Berit ^a   Goka, Bamenla Q ^d   Lemnge, Martha M ^b   Jensen, James B ^e   Akanmori, Bartholomew D ^f   Theander, Thor G ^a   Staalsoe, Trine ^a   Hviid, Lars ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^e BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f University of Ghana   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PARASITE ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VARIANT SURFACE ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; GHANA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDONESIA; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDAN; TANZANIA;

AFRICA, EASTERN; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GHANA; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INDONESIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 2442462793     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.6.3531-3535.2004     Document Type: Article

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