Sequence diversity of serine repeat antigen gene exon II of Plasmodium falciparum in worldwide collected wild isolates

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 808-817

  Liu, Qing ^a,g,h   Ferreira, Marcelo U ^b   Ndawi, Benedict T ^c   Ohmae, Hiroshi ^d   Adagu, Ipemida S ^e   Morikawa, Tomohiro ^f   Horii, Toshihiro ^f   Isomura, Shin ^a   Kawamoto, Fumihiko ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Primary Health Care Institute   (Tanzania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL DNA; SERINE REPEAT ANTIGEN, PLASMODIUM;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; EXON; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EXONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034574784     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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