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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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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 |