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

Table 3 Correlation of antibody responses to MSP2 recombinant antigens expressing allelic family specific and conserved regions; a, antibodies in all patients b, antibodies in naïve patients

			Pearson's correlation coefficients (r)
	3D7 non-repetitive	FC27	FC27 non-repetitive	MSP2 conserved region
All infections (n = 20, 2 non-typeable)
3D7	0.96^a	0.51^b	0.42	0.55^b
3D7 non-repetitive		0.48^b	0.4	0.67^a
FC27			0.85^a	0.13
FC27 non-repetitive				0.27
All single allelic family infections (n = 15)
3D7	0.94^a	0.55^b	0.18	0.33
3D7 non-repetitive		0.48	0.17	0.51
FC27			0.83^a	0.13
FC27 non-non-repetitive				0.17
Single 3D7 infections (n = 11)
3D7	0.95^a	0.89^a	0.78^b	0.6
3D7 non-repetitive		0.82^b	0.85^a	0.72^b
FC27			0.57	0.43
FC27 non-repetitive				0.92^a
Single FC27 infections (n = 4)
3D7	0.96^b	0.33	-0.14	-0.35
3D7 non-repetitive		0.39	-0.12	-0.24
FC27			0.87	-0.81
FC27 non-repetitive				-0.78
Multiple 3D7/FC27 infections (n = 3)
3D7	0.98	0.79	0.89	0.63
3D7 non-repetitive		0.67	0.79	0.76
FC27			0.98	0.03
FC27 non-repetitive	0.21

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