Malaria: progress, perils, and prospects for eradication

BM Greenwood, DA Fidock, DE Kyle… - The Journal of …, 2008 - Am Soc Clin Investig
There are still approximately 500 million cases of malaria and 1 million deaths from malaria
each year. Yet recently, malaria incidence has been dramatically reduced in some parts of …

Malaria in pregnancy: pathogenesis and immunity

SJ Rogerson, L Hviid, PE Duffy, RFG Leke… - The Lancet infectious …, 2007 - thelancet.com
Understanding of the biological basis for susceptibility to malaria in pregnancy was recently
advanced by the discovery that erythrocytes infected with Plasmodium falciparum …

Plasmodium falciparum Erythrocyte Membrane Protein 1 Diversity in Seven Genomes – Divide and Conquer

TS Rask, DA Hansen, TG Theander… - PLoS computational …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
The var gene encoded hyper-variable Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane
protein 1 (PfEMP1) family mediates cytoadhesion of infected erythrocytes to human …

Antigenic Variation in Plasmodium falciparum

A Scherf, JJ Lopez-Rubio, L Riviere - Annu. Rev. Microbiol., 2008 - annualreviews.org
The persistence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum during blood stage
proliferation in its host depends on the successive expression of variant molecules at the …

PRIMVAC vaccine adjuvanted with Alhydrogel or GLA-SE to prevent placental malaria: a first-in-human, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study

SB Sirima, L Richert, A Chêne, AT Konate… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background PRIMVAC is a VAR2CSA-derived placental malaria vaccine candidate aiming
to prevent serious clinical outcomes of Plasmodium falciparum infection during pregnancy …

Surface antigens of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes as immune targets and malaria vaccine candidates

JA Chan, FJI Fowkes, JG Beeson - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2014 - Springer
Understanding the targets and mechanisms of human immunity to malaria caused by
Plasmodium falciparum is crucial for advancing effective vaccines and developing tools for …

Afucosylated Plasmodium falciparum-specific IgG is induced by infection but not by subunit vaccination

MD Larsen, M Lopez-Perez, EK Dickson… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1) family members mediate
receptor-and tissue-specific sequestration of infected erythrocytes (IEs) in malaria. Antibody …

5′ flanking region of var genes nucleate histone modification patterns linked to phenotypic inheritance of virulence traits in malaria parasites

JJ Lopez‐Rubio, AM Gontijo, MC Nunes… - Molecular …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
In the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum antigenic variation facilitates long‐
term chronic infection of the host. This is achieved by sequential expression of a single …

[HTML][HTML] Malaria in pregnancy: linking immunity and pathogenesis to prevention

SJ Rogerson, V Mwapasa… - Defining and Defeating …, 2007 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pregnant women are susceptible to malaria during pregnancy. Plasmodium falciparum,
which sequesters in the placenta, causes the greatest disease, contributing significantly to …

Antigenic Variation in Plasmodium falciparum: Gene Organization and Regulation of the var Multigene Family

SA Kyes, SM Kraemer, JD Smith - Eukaryotic cell, 2007 - Am Soc Microbiol
Plasmodium falciparum imposes an enormous burden upon the developing world, with 300
to 500 million cases and 1 to 2 million deaths per year (94). Despite extensive research …