Antigenic variation in Plasmodium falciparum malaria involves a highly structured switching pattern

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Recker, Mario ^a   Buckee, Caroline O ^a,b   Serazin, Andrew ^c   Kyes, Sue ^c   Pinches, Robert ^c   Christodoulou, Zóe ^c   Springer, Amy L ^d   Gupta, Sunetra ^a   Newbold, Chris I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SWITCHING; GENOME ANALYSIS; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; VAR GENE; ALGORITHM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; PHENOTYPE;

FUNGI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1, PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ALGORITHMS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79953288741     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1001306     Document Type: Article

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