Broadly distributed T cell reactivity, with no immunodominant loci, to the pre-erythrocytic antigen thrombospondin-related adhesive protein of Plasmodium falciparum in West Africans.

Protective immunity to malaria has been achieved in human volunteers utilizing the pre-erythrocytic Plasmodium falciparum antigen, the circumsporozoite protein (CS). However, T cell reactivity to CS is focused on several highly polymorphic T cell epitope regions, potentially limiting the efficacy of...

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Những tác giả chính: Flanagan, K, Plebanski, M, Akinwunmi, P, Lee, E, Reece, W, Robson, K, Hill, A, Pinder, M
Định dạng: Journal article
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: 1999