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Assessing the genetic diversity of the vir genes in Indian Plasmodium vivax population.
Acta tropica - 1 Nov 2012
Gupta P, Das A, Singh O P, Ghosh S K, Singh V
Abstract excerpt
Variant surface antigens (VSAs) present on the surface of parasitized erythrocytes facilitate many Plasmodium spp. to escape the host immune system during infection. Multigene families coding for VSAs exist in several Plasmodium spp. and are located on telomeric and subtelomeric regions of the chromosomes. P. vivax genome also contains a multigene superfamily vir (variant interspersed repeats), present in the...
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