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Sexual Development in Plasmodium: Lessons from Functional Analyses
19 Jan 2012
Abstract excerpt
Malaria is a devastating global disease with several hundred million clinical cases and just under 1 million deaths each year (http://www.who.int/topics/malaria/). It is caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodium, which have a complex life cycle in a vertebrate host and a mosquito vector. Malaria parasites are haploid throughout most of this life cycle, replicating by asexual multiplication twice in a...
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