Short report: Emergence of new alleles of the MSP-3́ gene in Plasmodium vivax isolates from Korea

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 522-524

  Nam, Deok Hwa ^a   Oh, Jun Seo ^a   Nam, Myoung Hyun ^a   Park, Hae Chul ^a   Lim, Chae Seung ^a   Lee, Won Ja ^b   Sattabongkot, Jetsumon ^c   Klein, Terry A ^d   Ayala, Francisco J ^e  

^a Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Ministry of Health and Welfare   (South Korea)

^c ARMED FORCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Thailand)

^d Force Health Protection   (South Korea)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 3ALPHA; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 3, PLASMODIUM; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA;

PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; KOREA; MALARIA, VIVAX; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 77950931890     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.08-0332     Document Type: Article

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