Expression of Variant Surface Antigens by Plasmodium falciparum Parasites in the Peripheral Blood of Clinically Immune Pregnant Women Indicates Ongoing Placental Infection

Placenta-sequestered Plasmodium falciparum parasites that cause pregnancy-associated malaria (PAM) in otherwise clinically immune women express distinct variant surface antigens (VSA(PAM)) not expressed by parasites in nonpregnant individuals. We report here that parasites from the peripheral blood...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Ofori, Michael F., Staalsoe, Trine, Bam, Victoria, Lundquist, Maja, David, Kim P., Browne, Edmund N. L., Akanmori, Bartholomew D., Hviid, Lars
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: American Society for Microbiology 2003
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Fungal and Parasitic Infections
Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC148875/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12595482
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/IAI.71.3.1584-1586.2003
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