Cytokine profiles in peripheral, placental and Cord blood in an area of Unstable malaria transmission in Eastern Sudan

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 233-237

  Bayoumi, Nada K ^a   Bakhet, Khalid H ^a   Mohmmed, Ahmed A ^b   Eltom, Ahmed M ^a   Elbashir, Mustafa I ^a   Mavoungou, Elie ^c,d   Adam, Ishag ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^b NATIONAL RIBAT UNIVERSITY   (Sudan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d ALBERT SCHWEITZER HOSPITAL   (Gabon)

Author keywords

Cord; Cytokines; Malaria; Placenta; Pregnancy; Sudan

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MULTIPARA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY; PRIMIGRAVIDA; SUDAN; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; SUDAN;

EID: 70349437004     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmn062     Document Type: Article

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