| Literature DB >> 15541030 |
V Meraldi1, I Nebié, A B Tiono, D Diallo, E Sanogo, M Theisen, P Druilhe, G Corradin, R Moret, B S Sirima.
Abstract
A longitudinal study was undertaken in Burkina Faso among 293 children aged 6 months to 9 years in order to determine the correlation between an antibody response to several individual malarial antigens and malarial infection. It was found that the presence of a positive antibody response at the beginning of the rainy season to three long synthetic peptides corresponding to Plasmodium falciparum Exp-1 101-162, MSP-3 154-249 and GLURP 801-920 but not to CSP 274-375 correlated with a statistically significant decrease in malarial infection during the ongoing transmission season. The simultaneous presence of an antibody response to more than one antigen is indicative of a lower frequency of malarial infection. This gives scientific credibility to the notion that a successful malaria vaccine should contain multiple antigens.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15541030 DOI: 10.1111/j.0141-9838.2004.00705.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Parasite Immunol ISSN: 0141-9838 Impact factor: 2.280