Impact of intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine on antibody responses to erythrocytic-stage Plasmodium falciparum antigens in infants in Mozambique
Clin. vaccine immunol; 15 (8), 2008
We evaluated the impact of intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP), which was given at ages 3, 4, and 9 months through the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI), on the development of antibody responses to Plasmodium falciparum in Mozambique. Immunoglobuli...
Anticorpos Antiprotozoários/sangue, Anticorpos Antiprotozoários/imunologia, Anticorpos Antiprotozoários/genética, Antimaláricos/administração & dosagem, Antimaláricos/uso terapêutico, Malária Falciparum/imunologia, Malária Falciparum/prevenção & controle, Plasmodium falciparum/imunologia, Pirimetamina/administração & dosagem, Moçambique, Proteínas Recombinantes/genética, Proteínas Recombinantes/imunologia