Innate immunity limits protective adaptive immune responses against pre-erythrocytic malaria parasites

Here, Minkah et al. show that, while immunization with replication-competent Plasmodium parasites can confer sterile protection against infection, it also induces a type I interferon response that adversely affects anti-malaria immunity by affecting numbers of protective hepatic CD8 T cells and CD8...

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Main Authors: Nana K. Minkah, Brandon K. Wilder, Amina A. Sheikh, Thomas Martinson, Lisa Wegmair, Ashley M. Vaughan, Stefan H. I. Kappe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11819-0