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Prenatal immune priming in malaria: antigen-specific blastogenesis of cord blood lymphocytes from neonates born in a setting of holoendemic malaria

R. S. DesowitzPapua New Guinea Institute for Medical Research, Goroka, Papua New Guinea and Department of Tropical Medicine and Medical Microbiology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.
Pages 121-125 | Received 15 Jun 1987, Published online: 15 Nov 2016

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