Transgenic expression of a mosquito-stage malarial protein, Pbs21, in blood stages of transformed Plasmodium berghei and induction of an immune response upon infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 3884-3891

  Margos, Gabriele ^a   Van Dijk, Melissa R ^b   Ramesar, Jai ^b   Janse, Chris J ^b   Waters, Andrew P ^b   Sinden, Robert E ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GAMETOCYTE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION RISK; LIFE CYCLE; PLASMID; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA CONFORMATION; TRANSGENE;

EID: 0031854012     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.8.3884-3891.1998     Document Type: Article

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