Different response to Plasmodium falciparum malaria in West African sympatric ethnic groups

摘要

The comparison of malaria indicators among populations that have different genetic backgrounds and are uniformly exposed to the same parasite strains is one approach to the study of human heterogeneities in the re- sponse to the infection. We report the results of comparative surveys on three sympatric West African ethnic groups, Fulani, Mossi, and Rimaibe, living in the same conditions of hyperendemic transmission in a Sudan savanna area north- east of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.