Immunology and immunopathogenesis of malaria /

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Imprint:	Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2005.
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 231 p.) : ill.
Language:	English
Series:	Current topics in microbiology and immunology, 0070-217X ; 297 Current topics in microbiology and immunology ; 297.
Subject:	Malaria -- Immunological aspects. Malaria -- immunology. Malaria -- Immunological aspects.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8876725

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Other authors / contributors:	Langhorne, J. (Jean)
ISBN:	9783540299677 354029967X 9786610413447 6610413444 3540257187 (Cloth) 9783540257189 (Cloth)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.
Summary:	Malaria-specific mortality in young African children have increased, perhaps due to drug resistance, insecticide resistant mosquitoes, poverty, political upheaval, and lack of effective vaccines. Aimed at malariologists, and the broader immunological community, this book addresses vital issues of malarial immunity and immunopathology.
Other form:	Print version: Immunology and immunopathogenesis of malaria. Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2005 3540257187 9783540257189

Table of Contents:

The dissection of CD8 T cells during liver-stage infection / U. Krzych and R.J. Schwenk
Early interactions between blood-stage Plasmodium parasites and the immune system / B.C. Urban, R. Ing, and M.M. Stevenson
Longevity of the immune response and memory to blood-stage malaria infection / A.H. Achtman ... [et al.]
Experimental models of cerebral malaria / C. Engwerda ... [et al.]
Glycosylphosphatidylinositols in malaria pathogenesis and immunity : potential for therapeutic inhibition and vaccination / C.S. Boutlis ... [et al.]
The immunology and pathogenesis of malaria during pregnancy / J.G. Beeson and P.E. Duffy.

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