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Experimental test for premunition in a lizard malaria parasite (Plasmodium mexicanum).
The Journal of parasitology - 1 Apr 2007
Vardo Anne M, Kaufhold Kimberly D, Schall Jos J
Abstract excerpt
Premunition in Plasmodium spp. is the prevention of superinfection by novel genotypes entering an already established infection in a vertebrate host. Evidence for premunition was sought for the lizard malaria parasite, P. mexicanum, in its natural host, the fence lizard, Sceloporus occidentalis. Clonal diversity (= alleles for the haploid parasite) was determined with the use of 3 microsatellite markers. Both...
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