Genetic conservation of the Plasmodium falciparum apical membrane antigen-1 (AMA-1)

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 333-336

  Oliveira, Denise A ^a   Udhayakumar, Venkatachalam ^a   Bloland, Peter ^a   Shi, Ya Ping ^a   Nahlen, Bernard L ^b   Oloo, Aggrey J ^b   Hawley, William E ^b   Lal, Altaf A ^a  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

AMA 1; P. falciparum; sequence

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0029938030     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(95)02548-0     Document Type: Article

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