Plasmodium falciparum var Gene Expression Homogeneity as a Marker of the Host-Parasite Relationship under Different Levels of Naturally Acquired Immunity to Malaria

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Warimwe, George M ^a,b   Recker, Mario ^b   Kiragu, Esther W ^a   Buckee, Caroline O ^c   Wambua, Juliana ^a   Musyoki, Jennifer N ^a   Marsh, Kevin ^a,d   Bull, Peter C ^a,d  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CHRONICITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFANT; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VAR EXPRESSION HOMOGENEITY; VAR GENE;

ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84880848692     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070467     Document Type: Article

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