Highly co-ordinated var gene expression and switching in clinical Plasmodium falciparum isolates from non-immune malaria patients

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1397-1409

  Bachmann, Anna ^a   Predehl, Sabine ^a   May, Jürgen ^a   Harder, Simone ^a   Burchard, Gerd D ^b   Gilberger, Tim Wolf ^a   Tannich, Egbert ^a   Bruchhaus, Iris ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SWITCHING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VAR GENE;

ANIMALS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 80051804179     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2011.01629.x     Document Type: Article

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