Article
Innate resistance to malaria: the intraerythrocytic cycle.
Blood cells - 1 Jan 1990
Nagel R L
Abstract excerpt
The human innate resistance to P. falciparum malaria is based on genetic features that affect several stages of the intraerythrocytic cycle of the plasmodia. HbS, HbE and alpha and beta thalassemia (in addition to G-6PD deficiency) are protective to the carriers, because they inhibit the intraerythrocytic growth period, and in the case of AS red cells, in addition, parasitosis make them detectable expeditiously...
Topics
- Animals
- Erythrocytes
- Hemoglobin E
- Hemoglobin, Sickle
- Hemoglobinopathies
- Humans
- Immunity, Innate
- Malaria
- Mutation
- Plasmodium falciparum
- Thalassemia
