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Host immunity modulates transcriptional changes in a multigene family (yir) of rodent malaria
22 Sept 2005
Abstract excerpt
Variant antigens, encoded by multigene families, and expressed at the surface of erythrocytes infected with the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum and the simian parasite Plasmodium knowlesi, are important in evasion of host immunity. The vir multigene family, encoding a very large number of variant antigens, has been identified in the human parasite Plasmodium vivax and homologues (yir) of this family...
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