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Table 2 Proportion of study participants with a reactive IgG, IgM or IgG subclass antibodies to P. falciparum antigens AMA-1 and GLURP-R0, according to HIV infection status

From: HIV infection drives IgM and IgG3 subclass bias in Plasmodium falciparum-specific and total immunoglobulin concentration in Western Kenya

Recombinant malaria antigens

HIV negative (N = 52)

HIV positive (N = 129)

p valuea

IgM-AMA1, n (%)

7 (13)

65 (50)

< 0.001

IgM-GLURP-R0, n (%)

21 (40)

94 (73)

< 0.001

IgG-AMA1, n (%)

41 (79)

115 (89)

0.07

IgG-GLURP-R0, n (%)

24 (46)

71 (55)

0.28

IgG1-AMA1, n (%)

31 (60)

117 (91)

< 0.001

IgG1-GLURP-R0, n (%)

14 (27)

90 (70)

< 0.001

IgG2-AMA1, n (%)

6 (12)

24 (19)

0.25

IgG2-GLURP-R0, n (%)

12 (23)

30 (23)

0.98

IgG3-AMA1, n (%)

28 (54)

114 (88)

< 0.001

IgG3-GLURP-R0, n (%)

42 (81)

124 (96)

0.001

IgG4-AMA1, n (%)

27 (52)

63 (49)

0.71

IgG4-GLURP-R0, n (%)

1 (2)

2 (2)

0.86

  1. Statistically significant differences (p < 0.05) are displayed in italics
  2. aχ2 test