Plasmodium falciparum: Variation in block 4 of the precursor to the major merozoite surface proteins in natural populations

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 92-95

  Kaneko, Osamu ^a   Jongwutiwes, Somchai ^b   Kimura, Masatsugu ^a   Kanbara, Hiroji ^c   Ishii, Akira ^d   Tanabe, Kazuyuki ^e  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e OSAKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0030271803     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1996.0093     Document Type: Article

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