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Plasmodium vivax: C-terminal diversity in the blood stage SERA genes from Indian field isolates.
Experimental parasitology - 1 May 2013
Rahul C N, Shiva Krishna K, Meera Bai N, Kumar Vijay, Phadke Sandhya, Rajesh Vidya
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The burden of Plasmodium vivax malaria is huge in India, affecting a large population annually. Recent reports of P. vivax contributing to severe illness and death, makes vaccine research on P. vivax malaria, a high priority. Extent of sequence variation in antigen coding genes is known to be a major hurdle in vaccine initiatives against malaria. Serine repeat antigens of Plasmodium are promising asexual blood...
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