T-Cell responses to the DBLα-Tag, a short Semi-Conserved region of the Plasmodium falciparum membrane erythrocyte protein 1

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Gitau, Evelyn N ^a,b   Tuju, James ^a   Stevenson, Liz ^a   Kimani, Eva ^a,d   Karanja, Henry ^a   Marsh, Kevin ^a,c   Bull, Peter C ^a,c   Urban, Britta C ^a,b  

^a KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; GAMMA INTERFERON; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM MEMBRANE ERYTHROCYTE PROTEIN 1; RECOMBINANT ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1, PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECTOR CELL; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL CULTURE; CHILD; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

BASE SEQUENCE; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPITOPES; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKIN-4; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84855857015     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030095     Document Type: Article

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