Allelic diversity and antibody recognition of Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein 1 during hypoendemic malaria transmission in the Brazilian Amazon region

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 5906-5916

  Da Silveira, Lucimeire A ^a,b   Dorta, Míriam L ^b   Kimura, Emília A S ^a   Katzin, Alejandro M ^a   Kawamoto, Fumihiko ^d   Tanabe, Kazuyuki ^e   Ferreira, Marcelo U ^a,c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^c School of Nursing   (Brazil)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e OSAKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f FACULDADE DE MEDICINA DE SÃO JOSÉ DO RIO PRETO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALARIA; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0032708175     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.11.5906-5916.1999     Document Type: Article

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