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Genotypes of merozoite surface protein 2 of Plasmodium falciparum in Tanzania.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - 1 Feb 1999
Felger I, Irion A, Steiger S, Beck H P
Abstract excerpt
The merozoite surface protein 2 (MSP2) of Plasmodium falciparum is extremely polymorphic: 82 different msp2 alleles were found in 4 studies of molecular epidemiology conducted in Tanzania. This diversity renders msp2 suitable as a marker gene for the genotyping of P. falciparum infections. Amplification of msp2 by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and subsequent restriction digests of the PCR product...
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