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SUBMITTER: Garzon-Ospina D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3458108 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Garzón-Ospina Diego D López Carolina C Forero-Rodríguez Johanna J Patarroyo Manuel A MA
PloS one 20120925 9
A completely effective vaccine for malaria (one of the major infectious diseases worldwide) is not yet available; different membrane proteins involved in parasite-host interactions have been proposed as candidates for designing it. It has been found that proteins encoded by the merozoite surface protein (msp)-7 multigene family are antibody targets in natural infection; the nucleotide diversity of three Pvmsp-7 genes was thus analyzed in a Colombian parasite population. By contrast with P. falci ...[more]