Low levels of polymorphisms and no evidence for diversifying selection on the Plasmodium knowlesi Apical Membrane Antigen 1 gene.

Infection with Plasmodium knowlesi, a zoonotic primate malaria, is a growing human health problem in Southeast Asia. P. knowlesi is being used in malaria vaccine studies, and a number of proteins are being considered as candidate malaria vaccine antigens, including the Apical Membrane Antigen 1 (AMA...

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Main Authors: Bart W Faber, Khamisah Abdul Kadir, Roberto Rodriguez-Garcia, Edmond J Remarque, Frederick A Saul, Brigitte Vulliez-Le Normand, Graham A Bentley, Clemens H M Kocken, Balbir Singh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4400157?pdf=render