Malaria anticircumsporozoite antibodies in dutch soldiers returning from sub‐saharan africa
One hundred and twenty‐five Dutch servicemen returning from central Africa after a short deployment were enrolled in a study aimed at assessing the effectiveness of malaria prevention measures. None of the persons developed an episode of clinically overt malaria during or after deployment, and no antibodies against blood stages of Plasmodium falciparum could be found. However, antibodies against the circumsporozoite protein (CS) of P. falciparum were demonstrable in 14 persons (11.2% of the study population) by an ELISA test using the recombinant CS‐antigen R32tet 32, while one person only was... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 1998 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Tropical Medicine & International Health ; volume 3, issue 1, page 66-69 ; ISSN 1360-2276 1365-3156 |
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Wiley
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Schlagwörter: | Infectious Diseases / Public Health / Environmental and Occupational Health / Parasitology |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26690564 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3156.1998.00165.x |