Neonatal and maternal immunological responses to conserved epitopes within the DBL-γ3 chondroitin sulfate A-binding domain of Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 7988-7995

  Brustoski, Kim ^a,b   Kramer, Martin ^b   Möller, Ulrike ^b   Kremsner, Peter G ^a,b   Luty, Adrian J F ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b ALBERT SCHWEITZER HOSPITAL   (Gabon)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; CHONDROITIN 4 SULFATE; CYTOKINE; DUFFY BINDING PROTEIN; EPITOPE; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 10; MATERNAL ANTIBODY; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN DBL GAMMA3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; FEMALE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOREGULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MALARIA; MATERNAL BLOOD; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARITY; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; T LYMPHOCYTE; UMBILICAL CORD; VENOUS BLOOD;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLOOD; CHONDROITIN SULFATES; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 28444483928     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.12.7988-7995.2005     Document Type: Article

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