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Antigenic variation in Plasmodium falciparum malaria involves a highly structured switching pattern.

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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 antigenic and phenotypic characteristics to appear at different times within a population. Here we use a genome-wide approach to explore this process in vitro within a set of cloned parasite popul...

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10.1371/journal.ppat.1001306

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University of Oxford
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MPLS
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Zoology
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University of Oxford
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University of Oxford
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Newbold, C
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082130/Z/07/Z
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Serazin, A
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Public Library of Science Publisher's website
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PLoS pathogens Journal website
Volume:
7
Issue:
3
Pages:
e1001306
Publication date:
2011-03-03
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1553-7374
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1553-7366
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English
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pubs:124373
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124373
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2012-12-19

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