Can prenatal malaria exposure produce an immune tolerant phenotype?: A prospective birth cohort study in Kenya

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Malhotra, Indu ^a   Dent, Arlene ^a   Mungai, Peter ^a,b   Wamachi, Alex ^c   Ouma, John H ^b   Narum, David L ^d   Muchiri, Eric ^b   Tisch, Daniel J ^a   King, Christopher L ^a,e  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Division of Vector Borne Diseases   (Kenya)

^c KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^e LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FANSIDAR; GAMMA INTERFERON; HEMOGLOBIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 2; MEBENDAZOLE; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PRAZIQUANTEL;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HELMINTHIASIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NEWBORN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SENSITIZATION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 68049144807     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000116     Document Type: Article

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