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Plasmodium falciparum Variant Surface Antigen Expression Patterns during Malaria

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The variant surface antigens expressed on Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes are potentially important targets of immunity to malaria and are encoded, at least in part, by a family of var genes, about 60 of which are present within every parasite genome. Here we use semi-conserved regions within short var gene sequence "tags" to make direct comparisons of var gene expression in 12 clinical parasite isolates from Kenyan children. A total of 1,746 var clones were sequenced from genomic...

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10.1371/journal.ppat.0010026

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
RDM
Sub department:
Weatherall Insti. of Molecular Medicine
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University of Oxford
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Public Library of Science
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Volume:
1
Issue:
3
Pages:
e26
Publication date:
2005-11-18
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1553-7374
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1553-7366

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