Epigenetic dysregulation of virulence gene expression in severe plasmodium falciparum malaria

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 205, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1593-1600

  Merrick, Catherine J ^a   Huttenhower, Curtis ^b   Buckee, Caroline ^b   Amambua Ngwa, Alfred ^c   Gomez Escobar, Natalia ^c   Walther, Michael ^c   Conway, David J ^c   Duraisingh, Manoj T ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID; SIRTUIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYNAMICS; EPIGENETICS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PFEMP1 GENE; PFSIR2A GENE; PFSIR2B GENE; PFTERT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRESS; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; VAR GENE;

EPIGENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SIRTUINS; TELOMERE; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84860366319     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jis239     Document Type: Article

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