Article
Genetic Diversity and Natural Selection of the Plasmodium knowlesi Circumsporozoite Protein Nonrepeat Regions.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Fong Mun Yik, Ahmed Md Atique, Wong Shen Siang, Lau Yee Ling, Sitam Frankie
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Plasmodium knowlesi is a simian malaria parasite that has been identified to cause malaria in humans. To date, several thousand cases of human knowlesi malaria have been reported around Southeast Asia. Thus far, there is no detailed study on genetic diversity and natural selection of P. knowlesi circumsporozoite protein (CSP), a prominent surface antigen on the sporozoite of the parasite. In the...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
