A Novel Model of Asymptomatic Plasmodium Parasitemia That Recapitulates Elements of the Human Immune Response to Chronic Infection.

A Novel Model of Asymptomatic Plasmodium Parasitemia That Recapitulates Elements of the Human Immune Response to Chronic Infection.

In humans, immunity to Plasmodium sp. generally takes the form of protection from symptomatic malaria (i.e., 'clinical immunity') rather than infection ('sterilizing immunity'). In contrast, mice infected with Plasmodium develop sterilizing immunity, hindering progress in underst...

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Main Authors: Mary F Fontana, Alyssa Baccarella, Joshua F Craft, Michelle J Boyle, Tara I McIntyre, Matthew D Wood, Kurt S Thorn, Chioma Anidi, Aqieda Bayat, Me Ree Chung, Rebecca Hamburger, Chris Y Kim, Emily Pearman, Jennifer Pham, Jia J Tang, Louis Boon, Moses R Kamya, Grant Dorsey, Margaret E Feeney, Charles C Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5008831?pdf=render

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