Plasmodium reichenowi: Deduced amino acid sequence of sexual stage-specific surface antigen Prs48/45 and comparison with its homologue in Plasmodium falciparum

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 150-152

  Milek, Richard L B ^a   Kocken, Clemens H M ^a,b   Kaan, Anita M ^a   Jansen, Josephine ^a   Meijers, Henk ^a   Konings, Ruud N H ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISULFIDE; MALARIA VACCINE; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM REICHENOWI;

EID: 0031259698     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1997.4204     Document Type: Article

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