Soluble CD163, a Product of Monocyte/Macrophage Activation, Is Inversely Associated with Haemoglobin Levels in Placental Malaria

Caroline Lin Lin Chua; Graham V Brown; John A Hamilton; Malcolm E Molyneux; Stephen J Rogerson; Philippe Boeuf

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Soluble CD163, a Product of Monocyte/Macrophage Activation, Is Inversely Associated with Haemoglobin Levels in Placental Malaria

Caroline Lin Lin Chua, Graham V Brown, John A Hamilton, Malcolm E Molyneux, Stephen J Rogerson, Philippe Boeuf

PLOS ONE | PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE | Published : 2013

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064127

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University of Melbourne Researchers

Stephen Rogerson Author Medicine - Royal Melbourne Hospital

John Hamilton Author Medicine - Royal Melbourne Hospital

Graham Brown Author Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

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Awarded by Wellcome Trust Senior Overseas Fellowship

Funding Acknowledgements

Sample collection was funded by a Wellcome Trust Senior Overseas Fellowship to SJR (ref 063215). CLLC was supported by a PhD scholarship from the Nossal Institute for Global Health, Melbourne, Australia. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.