Quantification of anti-parasite and anti-disease immunity to malaria as a function of age and exposure.

Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer ORCID logo; Emmanuel Arinaitwe; Prasanna Jagannathan ORCID logo; Moses R Kamya; Phillip J Rosenthal; John Rek; Grant Dorsey; Joaniter Nankabirwa; Sarah G Staedke ORCID logo; Maxwell Kilama; +4 more... Chris Drakeley ORCID logo; Isaac Ssewanyana; David L Smith ORCID logo; Bryan Greenhouse; (2018) Quantification of anti-parasite and anti-disease immunity to malaria as a function of age and exposure. eLife, 7. ISSN 2050-084X DOI: 10.7554/eLife.35832
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Fundamental gaps remain in our understanding of how immunity to malaria develops. We used detailed clinical and entomological data from parallel cohort studies conducted across the malaria transmission spectrum in Uganda to quantify the development of immunity against symptomatic P. falciparum as a function of age and transmission intensity. We focus on: anti-parasite immunity (i.e. ability to control parasite densities) and anti-disease immunity (i.e. ability to tolerate higher parasite densities without fever). Our findings suggest a strong effect of age on both types of immunity, not explained by cumulative-exposure. They also show an independent effect of exposure, where children living in moderate/high transmission settings develop immunity faster as transmission increases. Surprisingly, children in the lowest transmission setting appear to develop immunity more efficiently than those living in moderate transmission settings. Anti-parasite and anti-disease immunity develop in parallel, reducing the probability of experiencing symptomatic malaria upon each subsequent P. falciparum infection.


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