Controlled human malaria infection: applications, advances, and challenges

DI Stanisic, JS McCarthy, MF Good - Infection and immunity, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Controlled human malaria infection (CHMI) entails deliberate infection with malaria
parasites either by mosquito bite or by direct injection of sporozoites or parasitized …

PfEMP1–a parasite protein family of key importance in Plasmodium falciparum malaria immunity and pathogenesis

L Hviid, ATR Jensen - Advances in parasitology, 2015 - Elsevier
Plasmodium falciparum causes the most severe form of malaria and is responsible for
essentially all malaria-related deaths. The accumulation in various tissues of erythrocytes …

The human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum can sense environmental changes and respond by antigenic switching

VM Schneider, JE Visone, CT Harris… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The primary antigenic and virulence determinant of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium
falciparum is a variant surface protein called PfEMP1. Different forms of PfEMP1 are …

Malaria: an overview

M Fikadu, E Ashenafi - Infection and Drug Resistance, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Malaria is a global public health burden with an estimated 229 million cases reported
worldwide in 2019. About 94% of the reported cases were recorded in the African region …

Differential Expression of var Gene Groups Is Associated with Morbidity Caused by Plasmodium falciparum Infection in Tanzanian Children

M Rottmann, T Lavstsen, JP Mugasa… - Infection and …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
The var gene family of Plasmodium falciparum encodes the variant surface antigen
Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1). PfEMP1 is considered …

Systems biology of malaria explored with nonhuman primates

MR Galinski - Malaria journal, 2022 - Springer
Abstract “The Primate Malarias” book has been a uniquely important resource for multiple
generations of scientists, since its debut in 1971, and remains pertinent to the present day …

Surface Co-Expression of Two Different PfEMP1 Antigens on Single Plasmodium falciparum-Infected Erythrocytes Facilitates Binding to ICAM1 and PECAM1

L Joergensen, DC Bengtsson, A Bengtsson… - PLoS …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
The Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1) antigens play a
major role in cytoadhesion of infected erythrocytes (IE), antigenic variation, and immunity to …

Safety and Clinical Outcome of Experimental Challenge of Human Volunteers with Plasmodium falciparum-Infected Mosquitoes: An Update

JE Epstein, S Rao, F Williams, D Freilich… - The Journal of …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Background. Challenge of volunteers by the bites of membrane-fed anopheline mosquitoes
infected with Plasmodium falciparum was reported in 1986. In 1997, an analysis of …

Sequential, ordered acquisition of antibodies to Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 domains

GKK Cham, L Turner, J Lusingu… - The Journal of …, 2009 - journals.aai.org
The binding of erythrocytes infected with mature blood stage parasites to the vascular bed is
key to the pathogenesis of malignant malaria. The binding is mediated by members of …

Mapping immune variation and var gene switching in naive hosts infected with Plasmodium falciparum

K Milne, A Ivens, AJ Reid, ME Lotkowska, A O'Toole… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Falciparum malaria is clinically heterogeneous and the relative contribution of parasite and
host in shaping disease severity remains unclear. We explored the interaction between …