AAge interactions in the development of naturally acquired immunity to plasmodium falciparum and its clinical presentation
PloS med; 4 (7), 2007
Background
Naturally acquired malaria immunity has many determinants and, in the absence of immunological markers of protection, studies assessing malaria incidence through clinical endpoints remain an approach to defining immunity acquisition. We investigated the role of age in disease incidence and th...
Age Factors, Anemia, Antigens, Protozoan/immunology, Anemia/prevention & control, Anemia/immunology, Dapsone/therapeutic use, Drug Therapy, Combination, Malaria, Falciparum/immunology, Malaria, Falciparum/prevention & control, Malaria, Falciparum/epidemiology, Plasmodium falciparum/immunology, Plasmodium falciparum/drug effects, Tanzania/epidemiology, Pyrimethamine/therapeutic use, Treatment Outcome