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Acquired immune responses to Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein-1 in the human fetus.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Jan 2002
King Christopher L, Malhotra Indu, Wamachi Alex, Kioko John, Mungai Peter, Wahab Sherif Abdel, Koech Davy, Zimmerman Peter, Ouma John, Kazura James W
Abstract excerpt
Infants born in areas of stable malaria transmission are relatively protected against severe morbidity and high density Plasmodium falciparum blood-stage infection. This protection may involve prenatal sensitization and immunologic reactivity to malaria surface ligands that participate in invasion of red cells. We examined cord blood T and B cell immunity to P. falciparum merozoite surface protein-1 (MSP-1) in...
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