Immunity to blood stages of Plasmodium falciparum is dependent on a specific pattern of immunoglobulin subclass responses to multiple blood stage antigens

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 804-808

  Eisenhut, Michael ^a  

^a BEDFORD HOSPITAL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; DNA VACCINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G3; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; VACCINE;

ARTICLE; DENSITOMETRY; GENOME; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; MALARIA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SCHIZONT; SERUM; TECHNOLOGY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 34547844153     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2007.02.011     Document Type: Article

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