stevor and rif are Plasmodium falciparum multicopy gene families which potentially encode variant antigens

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 97, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 161-176

  Cheng, Qin ^a,d   Cloonan, Nicole ^a   Fischer, Katja ^b   Thompson, Jenny ^c   Waine, Gary ^a   Lanzer, Michael ^b   Saul, Allan ^a  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN ARMY MALARIA INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Multicopy gene family; Plasmodium falciparum; rif; stevor; Subtelomeric; var

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 12; CHROMOSOME 4; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALARIA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; VIRULENCE; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TELOMERE;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0032583111     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00144-3     Document Type: Article

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