Diversity of the vaccine candidate AMA-1 of Plasmodium falciparum

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 109-113

  Marshall, Vikki M ^a   Zhang, LongXing ^a,c   Anders, Robin F ^a   Coppel, Ross L ^b  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c National Institute for Parasitic Diseases   (China)

Author keywords

Allelic variants; Apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA 1); Nucleotide sequencing; Plasmodium falciparum; RFLP analysis

Indexed keywords

MALARIA VACCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0029886225     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(96)02583-2     Document Type: Article

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