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. 2010 Mar 1;78(5):2248–2256. doi: 10.1128/IAI.00410-09

TABLE 3.

Cross-reactivity of DBL5 sera on lab-adapted parasite lines and clinical isolates

Serum Adjusted geometric mean of fluorescence intensity fora:
CSA-selected lab-adapted parasite line
Control
Clinical isolate
FCR3 7G8 HB3 A HB3 B Pf2004 NF54 Pf2006 A4ultra ItG-ICAM 736 1xpcsa 711 1xpcsa 755
Pool of plasma from multigravid Tanzanian females 489 175 349 212 686 234 377 176 98 381 104 126
Pool of plasma from multigravid Cameroonian females 55 126 323 241 469 120 62 106 507 180 39 79
Pool of plasma from Cameroonian males 19 59 137 98 95 60 62 251 1,648 94 32 19
Nonimmune plasma 11 21 29 11 39 32 14 6 7 86 3 52
7G8-DBL1var2csa, rabbit 1 15 59 58 6 14 63 11 0 ND ND ND ND
7G8-DBL1var2csa, rabbit 2 16 22 45 13 77 58 1 0 ND ND ND ND
7G8-DBL1var2csa, rabbit 3 6 43 36 29 11 14 6 2 ND ND ND ND
3D7-DBL5var2csa, rabbit 1 28 63 143 37 31 177 16 0 4 184 24 46
3D7-DBL5var2csa, rabbit 2 106 158 218 232 183 326 97 34 47 414 1,143 446
3D7-DBL5var2csa, rabbit 3 163 104 119 122 39 397 6 2 0 447 0 14
7G8-DBL5var2csa, rabbit 1 279 422 740 297 140 185 23 3 2 253 188 0
7G8-DBL5var2csa, rabbit 2 47 189 158 50 110 103 16 8 0 253 137 6
7G8-DBL5var2csa, rabbit 3 55 213 336 207 208 206 11 11 1 417 264 0
IT-DBL5var2csa, rabbit 1 493 16 1,314 799 170 79 88 5 0 219 37 37
IT-DBL5var2csa, rabbit 2 743 74 1,843 465 107 66 138 1 0 336 12 0
IT-DBL5var2csa, rabbit 3 659 29 1,567 636 220 18 37 2 0 0 3 0
IT-DBL3var22, rabbit 1 0 24 0 0 0 4 1 3 0 0 0 0
IT DBL3var22, rabbit 2 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 5 0 0 0
IT-DBL3var22, rabbit 3 0 0 5 28 0 6 34 0 1 0 12 4
A4-CIDR1, rabbit 1 0 3 0 3 6 0 15 2,300 16 0 0 0
a

Reactivity is expressed as the adjusted geometric mean of fluorescence intensity. Immune serum reactivities below that of the negative-control IT-DBL3var22 were considered negative. Boldface numbers represent those for parasite lines expressing a homologous PfEMP1 variant. ND, not done.