Article
Antibody recognition of Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte surface antigens in Kenya: evidence for rare and prevalent variants.
Infection and immunity - 1 Feb 1999
Bull P C, Lowe B S, Kortok M, Marsh K
Abstract excerpt
Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1) is the name given to a family of parasite proteins that are inserted into the infected erythrocyte surface. Studies using agglutination assays have shown previously that PfEMP1 epitopes are extremely diverse. In a study in Kenya, 21 pa...
Topics
- Agglutination Tests
- Animals
- Antibodies, Protozoan
- Antigens, Protozoan
- Antigens, Surface
- Blood Transfusion
- Child
- Erythrocytes
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Infant
- Kenya
- Malaria, Falciparum
- Plasmodium falciparum
- Protozoan Proteins
- Reproducibility of Results