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Malaria multigene families: the price of chronicity.
Parasitology today (Personal ed.) - 1 Jan 2000
Snounou G, Jarra W, Preiser P R
Abstract excerpt
In this article, Georges Snounou, William Jarra and Peter Preiser discuss the survival strategy of malaria parasites in the light of a novel mechanism of clonal phenotypic variation recently described for a multigene family of Plasmodium yoelii yoelii. The 235 kDa rhoptry proteins (Py235) encoded by these genes may be involved in the selection of red blood cells for invasion by merozoites. The new mechanism may...
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