Multiclonal asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infections predict a reduced risk of malaria disease in a Tanzanian population

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 103-110

  Bereczky, Sándor ^a   Liljander, Anne ^a   Rooth, Ingegerd ^c   Faraja, Lea ^c   Granath, Fredrik ^a   Montgomery, Scott M ^a,b   Färnert, Anna ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

CSP; Diversity; Haemoglobin; Malaria; Morbidity; Msp2; Plasmodium falciparum; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CIRCUMSPOROZOITE PROTEIN; FANSIDAR; HEMOGLOBIN; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 2; PROTEIN ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLONE; EXPOSURE; GENE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 2 GENE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; TANZANIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TANZANIA;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 33846411105     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2006.10.014     Document Type: Article

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