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SUBMITTER: Jongwutiwes S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2847032 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jongwutiwes Somchai S Putaporntip Chaturong C Hughes Austin L AL
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A number of cell surface antigens of the infective stages of malaria parasites (genus Plasmodium) have been proposed as vaccine candidates, but high levels of polymorphism at the loci encoding these antigens are problematic for vaccine effectiveness. In order to test for the effects of anti-malarial control measures (including drugs and vector control) on polymorphism at antigen-encoding loci, we analyzed sequences of four antigen-encoding loci from P. vivax and two from P. falciparum collected ...[more]