Both inflammatory and regulatory cytokine responses to malaria are blunted with increasing age in highly exposed children
Young children are at greatest risk for malaria-associated morbidity and mortality. The immune response of young children differs in fundamental ways from that of adults, and these differences likely contribut...
Source: Malaria Journal - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Lila Farrington, Hilary Vance, John Rek, Mary Prahl, Prasanna Jagannathan, Agaba Katureebe, Emmanuel Arinaitwe, Moses R. Kamya, Grant Dorsey and Margaret E. Feeney Tags: Research Source Type: research