Plasmodium falciparum antigenic variation. Mapping mosaic var gene sequences onto a network of shared, highly polymorphic sequence blocks.

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Published in Mol Microbiol on April 21, 2008

Authors

Peter C Bull1, Caroline O Buckee, Sue Kyes, Moses M Kortok, Vandana Thathy, Bernard Guyah, José A Stoute, Chris I Newbold, Kevin Marsh

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1: Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research, Coast, Kilifi, Kenya. pbull@kilifi.kemri-wellcome.org

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