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Cellular immune response to Plasmodium falciparum after pregnancy is related to previous placental infection and parity

BACKGROUND: Malaria in pregnancy is characterised by the sequestration of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes in placental intervillous spaces. Placental parasites express a specific phenotype, which allows them to cytoadhere to chondroitin sulfate A expressed by syncytiotrophoblasts. Malari...

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Autores principales: Fievet, Nadine, Tami, Germaine, Maubert, Bertrand, Moussa, Marlène, Shaw, Ian K, Cot, Michel, Holder, Anthony A, Chaouat, Gérard, Deloron, Philippe
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC149387/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12495437
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-1-16