<italic toggle="yes">Plasmodium falciparum</italic> Calcium-Dependent Protein Kinase 2 Is Critical for Male Gametocyte Exflagellation but Not Essential for Asexual Proliferation

<italic toggle="yes">Plasmodium falciparum</italic> Calcium-Dependent Protein Kinase 2 Is Critical for Male Gametocyte Exflagellation but Not Essential for Asexual Proliferation

ABSTRACT Drug development efforts have focused mostly on the asexual blood stages of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Except for primaquine, which has its own limitations, there are no available drugs that target the transmission of the parasite to mosquitoes. Therefore, there is a need t...

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Main Authors: Abhisheka Bansal, Alvaro Molina-Cruz, Joseph Brzostowski, Jianbing Mu, Louis H. Miller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2017-11-01
Series:mBio
Subjects:
PfCDPK2
exflagellation
female gametocyte
male gametocyte
mosquito
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01656-17

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https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01656-17

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