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Changes in lipid composition during sexual development of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

BACKGROUND: The development of differentiated sexual stages (gametocytes) within human red blood cells is essential for the propagation of the malaria parasite, since only mature gametocytes will survive in the mosquito’s midgut. Hence gametocytogenesis is a pre-requisite for transmission of the dis...

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Autores principales: Tran, Phuong N., Brown, Simon H. J., Rug, Melanie, Ridgway, Melanie C., Mitchell, Todd W., Maier, Alexander G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4744411/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26852399
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-016-1130-z