Deletion of a malaria invasion gene reduces death and anemia, in model hosts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Gómez, Noé D ^a,b   Safeukui, Innocent ^a   Adelani, Aanuoluwa A ^a   Tewari, Rita ^c   Reddy, Janardan K ^b   Rao, Sam ^b   Holder, Anthony ^d   Buffet, Pierre ^e   Mohandas, Narla ^f   Haldar, Kasturi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^e SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^f NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 7; PARASITE ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANEMIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE DELETION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RAT; SPECIES INVASION;

ANEMIA; ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; GENE DELETION; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; MALARIA; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RATS; SURVIVAL RATE;

MAMMALIA; MUS; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 80053265907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025477     Document Type: Article

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