1
Microbiology and Tumor Biology Center (MTC), Karolinska
Institutet, and the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Box 280 S-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
wahlgren@smi.ki.se
2
Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology,
Uppsala University Biomedical Center, S-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden. Dorothe.Spillmann@medkem.uu.se
The glycosaminoglycan hyaluronic acid has been identified as a second placental
receptor for Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes. Discovering
the factors that allow this parasite to stick to the placenta during pregnancy
may provide clues about how malaria infects other organs (86−90).
