The breadth, but not the magnitude, of circulating memory B cell responses to P. falciparum increases with age/exposure in an area of low transmission

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Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Nogaro, Sarah I ^a,b   Hafalla, Julius C ^b   Walther, Brigitte ^a   Remarque, Edmond J ^c   Tetteh, Kevin K A ^b   Conway, David J ^a,b   Riley, Eleanor M ^b   Walther, Michael ^a,d  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; PARASITE ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIPHTHERIA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MEMORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD; CELL COUNT; CELL MOTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GAMBIA; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL COUNT; CELL MOVEMENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DIPHTHERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; GAMBIA; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INFANT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053510597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025582     Document Type: Article

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