Malaria vaccines based on the Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein 3--should we avoid amino acid sequence polymorphisms or embrace them?
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Malaria vaccines based on the Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein 3--should we avoid amino acid sequence polymorphisms or embrace them?
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Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein 3 is a target of allele-specific immunity and alleles are maintained by natural selection.J Infect Dis. 2007 Jan 15;195(2):279-87. doi: 10.1086/509806. Epub 2006 Dec 13. J Infect Dis. 2007. PMID: 17191173
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