Plasmodium falciparum: Structural and functional domains of the mature- parasite-infected erythrocyte surface antigen

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 258-267

  Kun, Jürgen F J ^a   Waller, Karena L ^b   Coppel, Ross L ^b  

^a Institut fur Tropenmedizin   (Germany)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

MESA PfEMP 2; Plasmodium falciparum; Two exon structure

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; ERYTHROCYTE ANTIGEN; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE; GENE STRUCTURE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOSIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032799109     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4374     Document Type: Article

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