Selective upregulation of a single distinctly structured var gene in chondroitin sulphate A‐adhering Plasmodium falciparum involved in pregnancy‐associated malaria

By A. Salanti, T. Staalsoe, T. Lavstsen, Anja T. R. Jensen, M. Sowa, D. Arnot, L. Hviid, T. Theander. Molecular Microbiology, 2003

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Subfields: Epidemiology, Immunology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In Immunology

1. B. Greenwood
2. P. Alonso
3. Dennis E. Kyle
4. P. Duffy
5. F. S. Collins
6. David A. Fidock
7. Stefan H. I. Kappe

In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

1. P. Alonso
2. David A. Fidock
3. P. Duffy
4. F. S. Collins
5. Dennis E. Kyle
6. Stefan H. I. Kappe
7. B. Greenwood

Citations in the corpus

• Malaria: progress, perils, and prospects for eradication. (2008, positive): “A program to develop a vaccine based on VAR2CSA or the other proteins expressed by placental parasites is well under way (107).”
• Plasmodium falciparum Erythrocyte Membrane Protein 1 Diversity in Seven Genomes – Divide and Conquer (2010, background): “segment (ATS) [17].”
• Evidence for the Involvement of VAR2CSA in Pregnancy-associated Malaria (2004, background): “We have shown previously that the var2csa gene is remarkably conserved between parasite isolates (8).”
• Antimalarial drug resistance. (2004, background): “droitin sulphate A, and hyaluronic acid), suggesting expression of a single conserved var gene (41).”