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

Table 3b Naïve patients

			Pearson's correlation coefficients (r)
	3D7 non-repetitive	FC27	FC27 non-repetitive	MSP2 conserved region
All infections (n = 14, 2 non-typeable)
3D7	0.94^a	0.25	0.24	0.5
3D7 non-repetitive		0.21	0.24	0.64^b
FC27			0.92^a	-0.17
FC27 non-repetitive				0.21
All single allelic family infections (n = 10)
3D7	0.85^b	0.45	0.17	-0.12
3D7 non-repetitive		0.31	0.11	0.12
FC27			0.93^a	-0.11
FC27 non-non-repetitive				0.03
Single 3D7 infections (n = 6)
3D7	0.81	0.74	0.36	0.03
3D7 non-repetitive		0.45	0.63	0.46
FC27			0.32	0.09
FC27 non-repetitive				0.89^b
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

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