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Table 1 Rates of positive antibody responses measured by ELISA to merozoite surface proteins

From: Antibodies elicited in adults by a primary Plasmodium falciparum blood-stage infection recognize different epitopes compared with immune individuals

 

Proportion +ve serology

MSP119

19/20

FC27 non-repetitive

18/20

FC27/3D7 non-repetitive

17/20

3D7

16/20

MSP2 conserved region/MSP6/RAMA-E

15/20

MSP4/MSP5

14/20a

MSP7

13/20a

MSP1 block 2

4/20b

  1. a proportion +ves < MSP119, p < 0.05
  2. b proportion +ves < MSP119, p < 0.0001