Antigenic Variation in Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Involves a Highly Structured Switching Pattern

Many pathogenic bacteria, fungi, and protozoa achieve chronic infection through an immune evasion strategy known as antigenic variation. In the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, this involves transcriptional switching among members of the var gene family, causing parasites with different...

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Autores principales: Recker, Mario, Buckee, Caroline O., Serazin, Andrew, Kyes, Sue, Pinches, Robert, Christodoulou, Zóe, Springer, Amy L., Gupta, Sunetra, Newbold, Chris I.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3048365/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21408201
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1001306

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3048365/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21408201
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1001306

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