Association of IL-4 and IL-10 maternal haplotypes with immune responses to P. falciparum in mothers and newborns

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lokossou, Adjimon Gatien ^a,b,f   Dechavanne, Célia ^a,b   Bouraïma, Aziz ^c   Courtin, David ^a,b,c   Le Port, Agnès ^a,b   Ladékpo, Rodolphe ^c   Noukpo, Julien ^c   Bonou, Désiré ^c   Ahouangninou, Claude ^c   Sabbagh, Audrey ^a,b   Fayomi, Benjamin ^c,d   Massougbodji, Achille ^c,e   Garcia, André ^a,b   Migot Nabias, Florence ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c CERPAGE Laboratory   (Benin)

^d Institut des Sciences Biomédicales Appliquées ISBA   (Benin)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ABOMEY CALAVI   (Benin)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cord blood; Cytokine gene polymorphisms; IL 10; IL 13; IL 4; Malaria; P. falciparum; Pregnancy; Recombinant proteins; Specific antibodies

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN AMA 1; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN GLURP R0; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN GLURP R2; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN MSP 1; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN MSP 2; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN MSP 3; THYMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALLELE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BENIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IL 10 GENE; IL 13 GENE; IL 4 GENE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NEWBORN; NEWBORN ANEMIA; PLACENTA MALARIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RURAL AREA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-4; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84877587796     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-215     Document Type: Article

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