Merozoite surface protein 2 of Plasmodium reichenowi is a unique mosaic of Plasmodium falciparum allelic forms and species-specific elements

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 1998, Pages

  Dubbeld, Martin A ^a   Kocken, Clemens H M ^a   Thomas, Alan W ^a  

^a BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Malaria; Merozoite; MSA2; MSP2; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium reichenowi

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; MALARIA; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM REICHENOWI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032054265     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(97)00244-2     Document Type: Article

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