Temporal Expression and Localization Patterns of Variant Surface Antigens in Clinical Plasmodium falciparum Isolates during Erythrocyte Schizogony

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Bachmann, Anna ^a   Petter, Michaela ^b   Tilly, Ann Kathrin ^a   Biller, Laura ^a   Uliczka, Karin A ^a,c   Duffy, Michael F ^b   Tannich, Egbert ^a   Bruchhaus, Iris ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; APICOMPLEXAN LIFE CYCLE STAGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE SCHIZOGONY; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE ISOLATION; PFMC 2TM GENE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIF A GENE; RIF B GENE; SCHIZONT; STEVOR GENE; TROPHOZOITE; VAR GENE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84869222748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049540     Document Type: Article

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