Doesn't It All Come Down to Function? How To Correlate VAR2CSA Antibodies with Protection

Sedami Gnidehou^{1

2}, Stephanie K Yanow^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada gnidehou@ualberta.ca yanow@ualberta.ca.
² Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
³ Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada gnidehou@ualberta.ca yanow@ualberta.ca.
⁴ School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Comment

Sedami Gnidehou et al. mSphere. 2020.

. 2020 Jun 24;5(3):e00521-20.

doi: 10.1128/mSphere.00521-20.

Sedami Gnidehou^{1

2}, Stephanie K Yanow^{3

4}

¹ Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada gnidehou@ualberta.ca yanow@ualberta.ca.
² Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
³ Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada gnidehou@ualberta.ca yanow@ualberta.ca.
⁴ School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

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Keywords: Plasmodium falciparum; VAR2CSA antibodies; malaria; men and children; pregnancy.

Comment on

mSphere of Influence: Going Native, or the Risk of Overreliance on Recombinant Antigens.
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