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Relationship between in vivo synchronicity of Plasmodium falciparum and allelic diversity.
Parasitology international - 1 Dec 2009
Touré-Ndouo Fousseyni S, Zang-Edou Estelle S, Bisvigou Ulrich, Mezui-Me-Ndong Jérôme
Abstract excerpt
Plasmodium falciparum cells tend to grow in synchronicity during their cyclic intraerythrocytic development in vivo. Both host and parasite factors appear to be involved in this synchronization. We examined the link between mixed-allelic-family P. falciparum infection and synchronicity in parasitized red blood cells (PRBC) from symptomatic children. The distribution of rings and trophozoites in each PRBC sample...
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