Multi-epitope chimeric antigen used as a serological marker to estimate Plasmodium falciparum transmission intensity in the border area of China-Myanmar

Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Yao, Mei Xue ^a   Sun, Xiao Dong ^b   Gao, Yu Hui ^a   Cheng, Zhi Bin ^a   Deng, Wei Wei ^a   Zhang, Jia Jia ^a   Wang, Heng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b Yunnan Institute of Parasitic Diseases   (China)

Author keywords

China Myanmar border; Multi epitope chimeric antigens; Plasmodium falciparum; Serology; Transmission intensity

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALARIA RANDOM CONSTRUCTED ANTIGEN 1; PARASITE ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; EPITOPE; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRIED BLOOD SPOT TESTING; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MYANMAR; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION; SEROLOGY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TRANSMISSION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EPITOPES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYANMAR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85000717956     PISSN: 20955162     EISSN: 20499957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40249-016-0194-x     Document Type: Article

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