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A novel genetic technique in Plasmodium berghei allows liver stage analysis of genes required for mosquito stage development and demonstrates that de novo heme synthesis is essential for liver stage development in the malaria parasite

The combination of drug resistance, lack of an effective vaccine, and ongoing conflict and poverty means that malaria remains a major global health crisis. Understanding metabolic pathways at all parasite life stages is important in prioritising and targeting novel anti-parasitic compounds. The unus...

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Autores principales: Rathnapala, Upeksha L., Goodman, Christopher D., McFadden, Geoffrey I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5472305/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28617870
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1006396