Virulence of malaria is associated with differential expression of Plasmodium falciparum var gene subgroups in a case-control study

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 193, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1567-1574

  Kaestli, Mirjam ^a,d   Cockburn, Ian A ^b,e   Cortés, Alfred ^c,f   Baea, Kay ^c   Rowe, J Alexandra ^b   Beck, Hans Peter ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^d MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HAPLOIDY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; ROSETTE FORMATION; UPREGULATION; VAR GENE;

ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; VIRULENCE;

EID: 33646931473     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/503776     Document Type: Article

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