Natural selection on Apical Membrane Antigen-1 of Plasmodium falciparum

Parassitologia

Volumn 41, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 93-95

  Verra, F ^a   Hughes, A L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apical Membrane Antigen 1 (AMA 1); Immune evasion; Plasmodium falciparum; T cell epitopes

Indexed keywords

APICAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN I, PLASMODIUM; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REVIEW;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033182863     PISSN: 00482951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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