The South American Plasmodium falciparum var gene repertoire is limited, highly shared and possibly lacks several antigenic types

Gene

Volumn 453, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 37-44

  Albrecht, Letusa ^a   Castiñeiras, Catarina ^a   Carvalho, Bruna O ^b   Ladeia Andrade, Simone ^a   Santos da Silva, Natal ^a   Hoffmann, Erika H E ^a   dalla Martha, Rosimeire C ^c   Costa, Fabio T M ^b   Wunderlich Gerhard, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c Research Center for Tropical Medicine CEPEM/Tropical Pathology Research Institute IPEPATRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antigenic variation; PfEMP1; Var

Indexed keywords

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLONE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INOCULATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BRAZIL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 77949304287     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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