CD4+ T cell responses to the Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 in children with mild malaria

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 192, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1753-1761

  Gitau, Evelyn N ^a,b   Tuju, James ^a   Karanja, Henry ^a   Stevenson, Liz ^a,d   Requena, Pilar ^b   Kimani, Eva ^a   Olotu, Ally ^a   Kimani, Domtila ^a   Marsh, Kevin ^a,c   Bull, Peter ^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

ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-4; KENYA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 84894225378     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1200547     Document Type: Article

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