Journal article
Characterization of the repertoire diversity of the Plasmodium falciparum stevor multigene family in laboratory and field isolates.
- Abstract:
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BACKGROUND: The evasion of host immune response by the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum has been linked to expression of a range of variable antigens on the infected erythrocyte surface. Several genes are potentially involved in this process with the var, rif and stevor multigene families being the most likely candidates and coding for rapidly evolving proteins. The high sequence diversity of proteins encoded by these gene families may have evolved as an immune evasion strategy th...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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BioMalPar
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Wellcome Trust
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Malaria Journal Journal website
- Volume:
- 8
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 140
- Publication date:
- 2009-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1475-2875
- ISSN:
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1475-2875
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- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:140072
- Source identifiers:
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140072
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Blythe et al
- Copyright date:
- 2009
- Notes:
- © 2009 Blythe et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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