How do hemoglobins S and C result in malaria protection?

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 204, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1651-1653

  Williams, Thomas N ^a,b,c,d  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROCYTE BAND 3 PROTEIN; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1; HEMOGLOBIN C; HEMOGLOBIN S; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PARASITE ANTIBODY;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIUM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE ADHESIVENESS; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN C; HEMOGLOBIN, SICKLE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 80155194123     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir640     Document Type: Note

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