Anemia Offers Stronger Protection Than Sickle Cell Trait Against the Erythrocytic Stage of Falciparum Malaria and This Protection Is Reversed by Iron Supplementation

EBioMedicine

Volumn 14, Issue , 2016, Pages 123-130

  Goheen, M M ^a   Wegmuller R ^b   Bah, A ^b   Darboe, B ^b   Danso, E ^b   Affara, M ^b   Gardner, D ^a   Patel, J C ^c   Prentice, A M ^b,d   Cerami, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^c IL   (United States)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anemia; Hemoglobin; Iron; Iron supplementation; Malaria; Sickle cell trait

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3B RECEPTOR; DECAY ACCELERATING FACTOR; ERYTHROCYTE ANTIGEN; FERRITIN; GLYCOPHORIN A; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN BETA CHAIN; HEPCIDIN; IRON; SIALOGLYCOPROTEIN; TRANSFERRIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CELL INVASION ASSAY; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ERYTHROPOIESIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENOTYPE; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARASITE ISOLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOCYTE; SICKLE CELL; SICKLE CELL TRAIT; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; COMPLICATION; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEALTH SURVEY; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ANEMIA; BIOMARKERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; IRON; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SICKLE CELL TRAIT;

EID: 85003874497     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23523964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2016.11.011     Document Type: Article

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