Identification of the Plasmodium chabaudi homologue of merozoite surface proteins 4 and 5 of Plasmodium falciparum

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2075-2081

  Black, Casilda G ^a   Wang, Lina ^a   Hibbs, Alan R ^b   Werner, Ekkehard ^c   Coppel, Ross L ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b EPWORTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 2; GENE SEQUENCE; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0032929401     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.5.2075-2081.1999     Document Type: Article

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