Maurer's clefts, the enigma of Plasmodium falciparum

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

Volumn 110, Issue 50, 2013, Pages 19987-19994

  Mundwiler Pachlatko, Esther ^a,b   Beck, Hans Peter ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

CYTOSOL; ERYTHROCYTE; HOST CELL; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW;

EID: 84890279693     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1309247110     Document Type: Review

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