Article
<i>Plasmodium knowlesi</i> clinical isolates from Malaysia show extensive diversity and strong differential selection pressure at the merozoite surface protein 7D (MSP7D)
2019-02-01
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<h4>Background</h4> High proportion of human cases due to the simian malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi in Malaysia has been a cause of concern, as it can be severe and fatal. Merozoite surface protein 7 (MSP7) is a multigene family which forms a non-covalent complex with MSP-1 prior to receptor-ligand recognition in Plasmodium falciparum and thus an important antigen for vaccine development. However, no stud...
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- Literature Corpus work
- bd2c0554-504c-52cd-8c13-38ade38b46c6
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- 10.1101/537621
