Prevalence of 5' insertion mutants and analysis of single nucleotide polymorphism in the erythrocyte binding-like 1 (ebl-1) gene in Kenyan Plasmodium falciparum field isolates

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 833-838

  Githui, Elijah K ^a,b   Peterson, David S ^b   Aman, Rashid A ^a   Abdi, Abdirahman I ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ebl 1; Erythrocyte binding like; Field isolates; Plasmodium; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DNA; ERYTHROCYTE BINDING LIKE 1; GENE PRODUCT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA ISOLATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; KENYA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POINT MUTATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STOP CODON; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLOOD GROUP DUFFY SYSTEM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATISTICS;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

5' FLANKING REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DUFFY BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; KENYA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 77953968714     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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