Immunology and Immunopathogenesis of Malaria

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Langhorne, Jean (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Edition: 297.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 297
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Biomedicine.

Malaria is still a major global health problem, killing more than 1 million people every year. Almost all of these deaths are caused by Plasmodium falciparum, one of the four species of malaria parasites infecting humans. This high burden of mortality falls heavily on Sub-Saharan Africa, where over...