Plasmodium falciparum: A high proportion of parasites from a population of the Dd2 strain are able to invade erythrocytes by an alternative pathway

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 79-83

  Soubes, Sandrine C ^a   Wellems, Thomas E ^a   Miller, Louis H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIALIC ACID;

ARTICLE; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; LIGAND BINDING; MALARIA; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TELOMERE;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0031148857     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1997.4153     Document Type: Article

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