Genetic diversity of T-helper cell epitopic regions of circumsporozoite protein of Plasmodium falciparum isolates from India

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 395-400

  Bhattacharya, Pramatha R ^a   Bhatia, Vinay ^a   Pillai, C R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MALARIA RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Circumsporozoite protein; India; Malaria; PCR; Plasmodium falciparum; T helper cell epitope

Indexed keywords

CIRCUMSPOROZOITE PROTEIN; EPITOPE; GENOMIC DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HELPER CELL; INDIA; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; GEOGRAPHY; INDIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPOROZOITES; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; VARIATION (GENETICS);

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 33644841134     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2005.07.012     Document Type: Article

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