Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 domain cassettes 8 and 13 are associated with severe malaria in children

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 26, 2012, Pages

  Lavstsen, Thomas ^a,b   Turner, Louise ^a,b   Saguti, Fredy ^c   Magistrado, Pamela ^a,b,c   Rask, Thomas S ^d   Jespersen, Jakob S ^a,b   Wang, Christian W ^a,b   Berger, Sanne S ^a,b   Baraka, Vito ^c   Marquard, Andrea M ^a,b   Seguin Orlando, Andaine ^e   Willerslev, Eske ^e   Gilbert, M Thomas P ^e   Lusingu, John ^a,b,c   Theander, Thor G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN MALARIA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CHILD; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84862993935     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1120455109     Document Type: Article

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