Open AccessExposure to Diverse Plasmodium falciparum Genotypes Shapes the Risk of Symptomatic Malaria in Incident and Persistent Infections: A Longitudinal Molecular Epidemiologic Study in Kenya
Author(s) -
Kelsey M. Sumner,
Elizabeth Freedman,
Judith Mangeni,
Andrew Obala,
Lucy Abel,
Jessie K. Edwards,
Michael Emch,
Steven R. Meshnick,
Brian W. Pence,
Wendy Prudhomme-O’Meara,
Steve M. Taylor
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases/clinical infectious diseases (online. university of chicago. press)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciab357
Subject(s) - haplotype , malaria , plasmodium falciparum , odds ratio , asymptomatic , medicine , immunology , genotype , biology , genetics , gene
Repeated exposure to malaria infections could protect against symptomatic progression as people develop adaptive immunity to infections acquired over time.