Serologic responses to the PfEMP1 DBL-CIDR head structure may be a better indicator of malaria exposure than those to the DBL-α tag

Table 1 Correlation of DBL-α tags and parent DBL-CIDR head structures for serorecognized PfEMP1 fragments

var group	PfEMP1	No. of serum samples with serorecognition of the fragment	r _s	P value
A	PF3D7_1100200	11	0.81	0.007
A	PF3D7_1300300	13	0.42	0.15
A/var3	PF3D7_0100300	13	0.36	0.23
B	PF3D7_0200100	17	0.33	0.19
B/A	PF3D7_0632500	5	− 0.30	0.68
B/C	PF3D7_0808700	9	0.58	0.11
C	PF3D7_0712000	33	0.52	0.002
	PF3D7_1240600	19	− 0.10	0.68
	PF3D7_0617400	27	0.34	0.09

PfEMP1 Plasmodium falciparum membrane protein-1, DBL Duffy binding-like, CIDR cysteine-rich interdomain region, r_s Spearman correlation coefficient

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