Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein: Epidemiological variations among field isolates prevalent in India

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 957-966

  Singh, J P N ^a   Verma, S ^a   Bhattacharya, P R ^a   Srivastava, N ^b   Dash, A P ^a   Biswas, S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MALARIA RESEARCH   (India)

^b JIWAJI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Circumsporozoite protein; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Polymorphism; T helper cell epitope

Indexed keywords

CIRCUMSPOROZOITE PROTEIN; EPITOPE; GENOMIC DNA;

DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; HEALTH CARE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALARIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN; PROTOZOAN; VACCINE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA PURIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; INDIA; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; INDIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 68949116028     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2009.02314.x     Document Type: Article

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