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Etiology of Placental Plasmodium falciparum Malaria in African Women

Plasmodium falciparum parasites causing placental malaria express the VAR2CSA type of the clonally variant antigen family erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1). This enables evasion of preexisting immunity and results in placental accumulation of infected erythrocytes. We present data on seasonal...

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Autores principales: Ofori, Michael F, Lamptey, Helena, Dickson, Emmanuel K, Kyei-Baafour, Eric, Hviid, Lars
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6009667/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29579263
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiy168

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