Plasmodium Falciparum in the White-Handed Gibbon: Protection Afforded by Previous Infection with Homologous and Heterologous Strains Obtained in Thailand.

摘要

Evidence has been presented that multiple immunologic strains of P. falciparum can coexist in a small geographic area and that single infection with these strains may confer little or no protection against each other but that multiple re-infection with an homologous strain may confer some degree of immunity to some heterologous strains as well. (Author)