Prognostic indicators of life-threatening malaria are associated with distinct parasite variant antigen profiles

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 129, 2012, Pages

  Warimwe, George M ^a,d   Fegan, Gregory ^a,b   Musyoki, Jennifer N ^a   Newton, Charles R J C ^a,c   Opiyo, Michael ^a   Githinji, George ^a   Andisi, Cheryl ^a   Menza, Francis ^a   Kitsao, Barnes ^a   Marsh, Kevin ^a,b   Bull, Peter C ^a,b  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d Churchill Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1; GROUP A PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFECTED ERYTHROCYTE SURFACE ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; CELL ADHESION; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROUP A LIKE VAR GENE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NEGRO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; ROSETTE FORMATION; ANIMAL; CHILD; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHILD; HUMANS; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84860354872     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3003247     Document Type: Article

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