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Experience counts in the malaria response

A systems immunology analysis of controlled human malaria infections in Africans who were malaria experienced and Europeans who were malaria naive yields new insights into old questions of malaria immunity.

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Fig. 1: Systems analysis of CHMI in African and European volunteers.

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The authors would like to thank Austin J. Athman (Visual Medical Arts, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health) for assistance with creating the illustration in Fig. 1.

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Holla, P., Tran, T.M. Experience counts in the malaria response. Nat Immunol 22, 537–539 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-021-00917-1

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