Variant antigen gene expression in malaria

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1371-1381

  Dzikowski, Ron ^a   Templeton, Thomas J ^a   Deitsch, Kirk ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANEMIA; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGENICITY; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEVER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; INTRON; MALARIA; MORTALITY; MOSQUITO; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REPTILIA;

EID: 33746920002     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2006.00760.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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