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Effects of Sex, Parity, and Sequence Variation on Seroreactivity to Candidate Pregnancy Malaria Vaccine Antigens
1 Jun 2007
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes adhere to chondroitin sulfate A (CSA) to sequester in the human placenta, and pregnancy malaria (PM) is associated with the development of disease in and the death of both mother and child. A PM vaccine appears to be feasible, because women become protected as they develop antibodies against placental infected erythrocytes (IEs). Two IE surface molecules,...
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