amongst Children and Adults Exposed to Endemic Malaria in Kenya

antigens and age, asymptomatic parasitaemia, malaria exposure index (a distance weighted local malaria prevalence) and immunity to febrile malaria during 10-months of prospective follow up. (MSP1) and Merozoite Surface Protein 3 (MSP3) were measured by Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay in 275 children, who had experienced at least one episode of clinical malaria by the time of this study, as determined by active weekly surveillance. malaria. There were no consistent prospective associations between antibody avidities and malaria episodes.-merozoite antigens are associated with either exposure or immunity to malaria