Deletion of a malaria invasion gene reduces death and anemia, in model hosts.

Malaria parasites induce complex cellular and clinical phenotypes, including anemia, cerebral malaria and death in a wide range of mammalian hosts. Host genes and parasite 'toxins' have been implicated in malarial disease, but the contribution of parasite genes remains to be fully defined....

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Main Authors: Noé D Gómez, Innocent Safeukui, Aanuoluwa A Adelani, Rita Tewari, Janardan K Reddy, Sam Rao, Anthony Holder, Pierre Buffet, Narla Mohandas, Kasturi Haldar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0025477&type=printable
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