Placental malaria is associated with attenuated CD4 T-cell responses to tuberculin PPD 12 months after BCG vaccination

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Walther, Brigitte ^a   Miles, David J C ^a,b   Waight, Pauline ^a,c   Palmero, Melba S ^a   Ojuola, Olubukola ^a,d   Touray, Ebrima S ^a   Whittle, Hilton ^a   van der Sande, Marianne ^a,e,f   Crozier, Sarah ^a,g   Flanagan, Katie L ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^b MALAWI LIVERPOOL WELLCOME TRUST CLINICAL RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Malawi)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d BRONX LEBANON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD40 LIGAND; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 2; TUBERCULIN; BCG VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL STIMULATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RESPONSE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GROWTH RATE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFANT; MALARIA; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PLACENTAL MALARIA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NEWBORN; PLACENTA DISORDER; PREGNANCY; TUBERCULIN TEST;

CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD40 LIGAND; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-2; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALARIA; PLACENTA DISEASES; PREGNANCY; TUBERCULIN; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS VACCINES;

EID: 84855720979     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-6     Document Type: Article

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