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SUBMITTER: Mensah-Brown HE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6611546 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mensah-Brown Henrietta E HE Aspeling-Jones Harvey H Delimini Rupert K RK Asante Kwaku Poku KP Amlabu Emmanuel E Bah Saikou Y SY Beeson James G JG Wright Gavin J GJ Conway David J DJ Awandare Gordon A GA
Open forum infectious diseases 20190528 7
<h4>Background</h4><i>Plasmodium falciparum</i> uses a repertoire of merozoite-stage proteins for invasion of erythrocytes. Antibodies against some of these proteins halt the replication cycle of the parasite by preventing erythrocyte invasion and are implicated as contributors to protective immunity against malaria.<h4>Methods</h4>We assayed antibody reactivity against a panel of 9 recombinant antigens based on erythrocyte-binding antigen (EBA) and reticulocyte-like homolog (Rh) proteins in pla ...[more]