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What is it that causes pathogens to harm their host? In my lab, we study the evolutionary pressures, and the biology underlying them, that make pathogens virulent.
Modern molecular typing techniques now permit to identify rapidly var genes encoding dominant expressed PfEMP-1 variants in a given isolate and allow for the first time to define cellular immune re
Britta Urban obtained a PhD at the Bernhard-Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany in 1996, investigating complement resistance of Entamoeba histolytica.
People living in malaria-endemic areas become immune to death from severe malaria essentially by the age of five years, and develop immunity against mild clinical episodes at variable rates.
My group aims to identify new targets of malaria intervention by identifying and characterizing subsets of PfEMP1 that are associated with infections of children with low natural immunity at diff
