Predicted and observed alleles of Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein-1 (MSP-1), a potential malaria vaccine antigen

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 1998, Pages

  Qari, Shoukat H ^a,d   Shi, Ya Ping ^a   Goldman, Ira F ^a   Nahlen, Bernard L ^a,b   Tibayrenc, Michel ^c   Lal, Altaf A ^a  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Alleles; Malaria; Parasite; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; MALARIA VACCINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFANT; KENYA; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; INFANT; KENYA; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALARIA VACCINES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0032078828     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00010-3     Document Type: Article

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