ABO blood group phenotypes influence parity specific immunity to Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Malawian women

Malaria Journal

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Senga, Edward ^a   Loscertales, Maria Paz ^b   Makwakwa, Keb ^a   Liomba, George N ^a   Dzamalala, Charles ^a   Kazembe, Peter N ^c   Brabin, Bernard J ^b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c Baylor Children's Foundation Malawi   (Malawi)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e ALDER HEY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; MALARIA; MALAWI; MULTIPARA; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARITY; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA WEIGHT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIMIPARA; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; IMMUNOLOGY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA DISORDER; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RISK;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALAWI; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PARITY; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA DISEASES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC;

EID: 34848922388     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-6-102     Document Type: Article

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