The stability and complexity of antibody responses to the major surface antigen of Plasmodium falciparum are associated with age in a malaria endemic area

Molecular and Cellular Proteomics

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Barry, Alyssa E ^a,b,d   Trieu, Angela ^c   Fowkes, Freya J I ^d   Pablo, Jozelyn ^e   Kalantari Dehaghi, Mina ^e   Jasinskas, Algis ^e   Tan, Xiaolin ^e   Kayala, Matthew A ^f   Tavul, Livingstone ^g   Siba, Peter M ^g   Day, Karen P ^h   Baldi, Pierre ^f   Felgner, Philip L ^e,i   Doolan, Denise L ^c,j  

^a BURNET INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

^g PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^h NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ Antigen Discovery Inc   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1, PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; ISOPROTEIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CHILD; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; ADULT; AGE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN ARRAY ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80555146714     PISSN: 15359476     EISSN: 15359484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/mcp.M111.008326     Document Type: Article

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