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HLA associations in P. falciparum malaria patients from Mumbai, western India.
Indian journal of malariology - 1 Jan 2000
Shankarkumar U, Devaraj J P, Ghosh K, Karnad D, Anand K, Mohanty D
Abstract excerpt
In the present study, HLA associations among the cohort of 171 severe P. falciparum malaria patients were compared with that of 101 normal sex, age and ethnically matched control samples. All these individuals lived in Mumbai in an area of low and seasonal P. falciparum transmission. HLA A, B, DRB1 and DQB1 antigens were serologically (A and B) and molecularly (DRB and DQB) determined using isolated lymphocytes...
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