Plasmodium falciparum parasites causing cerebral malaria share variant surface antigens, but are they specific?

Malaria Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Kheliouen, Nabila ^a,b   Viwami, Firmine ^c   Lalya, Francis ^d   Tuikue Ndam, Nicaise ^a   Moukoko, Else C Eboumbou ^e,f   Rogier, Christophe ^e   Deloron, Philippe ^a,b   Aubouy, Agnès ^a,c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c UMR216 IRD   (Benin)

^d Centre National Hospitalo Universitaire (CNHU)   (Benin)

^e INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE BIOMÉDICALE DES ARMÉES   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF DOUALA   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN; EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN MALARIA; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED MALARIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; UNCOMPLICATED MALARIA; AGE; BENIN; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BENIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPITOPES; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFANT; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954881844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-9-220     Document Type: Article

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