El papel de las IgG no inmunes unidas a PfEMP1 en la malaria placentaria

K Flick1, C Scholander, Q Chen

  • 1Microbiology and Tumor Biology Center (MTC), Karolinska Institutet and Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Box 280, S-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|September 15, 2001
PubMed
Resumen

Las infecciones por Plasmodium falciparum en mujeres embarazadas causan que los glóbulos rojos infectados se acumulen en la placenta. Estas células infectadas se unen a la inmunoglobulina G (IgG), potencialmente uniéndose a los receptores placentarios.

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