Maternal malaria and early-life infections shape humoral immunity to P. falciparum in infants
Felistas Nankya, Florian A. Bach, Kathleen D. Press, Pamela M. Odorizzi, Kenneth Musinguzi, Kate Naluwu, Isaac Ssewanyana, Abel Kakuru, Moses Robert Kamya, Grant Dorsey, Margaret E. Feeney, Prasanna Jagannathan
The paper examines how maternal malaria and early-life infections affect P. falciparum-specific antibody responses in infants, finding no protective association between maternal antibodies or early infections and clinical malaria.
bioRxiv · Feb 16, 2026 · PreprintImmunology