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Cell biology and immunology of malaria
23 Feb 2011
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Malaria is a vector-borne infectious disease caused by unicellular parasites of the genus Plasmodium. These obligate intracellular parasites have the unique capacity to infect and replicate within erythrocytes, which are terminally differentiated host cells that lack antigen presentation pathways. Prior to the cyclic erythrocytic infections that cause the characteristic clinical symptoms of malaria, the parasite...
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