Genetic diversity in new members of the reticulocyte binding protein family in Thai Plasmodium vivax isolates
Background Plasmodium vivax merozoites specifically invade reticulocytes. Until recently, two reticulocyte-binding proteins (Pvrbp1 and Pvrbp2) expressed at the apical pole of the P. vivax merozoite were considered to be involved in reticulocyte recognition. The genome sequence recently obtained for...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2012
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