Example sentences for: hbas
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In this month's PLoS Medicine , Thomas Williams and colleagues reason that the best way to test whether malaria protection by HbAS has a significant immune component is to see whether protection varies with age.
They argued that if the malaria protection provided by HbAS were innate, it should be independent of malaria exposure and remain constant with age.
They note that in a recent study, conducted by another group in western Kenya, protection against severe malaria by HbAS was only seen in children 2–16 months old, but that in that study, no analysis was presented that addressed the effect of age within that range.
They found that overall HbAS was nearly 40% protective against mild clinical malaria.
They suggest several mechanisms for how HbAS could accelerate immune acquisition; for example, immunity could be mediated by accelerated acquisition of antibodies to altered host antigens expressed on the parasite-infected red cell surface.
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