(Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1972) A Bolad, K Berzins
Abstract The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, causing the most severe form of the
disease in humans, is characterized by a broad antigenic diversity between different strains
and isolates of the parasite. The antigenic diversity reflects on the one hand polymorphisms
in allelic gene products and, on the other hand, antigenic variation as a result of expression
of alternative genes in multigene families. Using selected polymorphic regions in two
merozoite surface antigens, a method for genotyping P. falciparum parasites has been ...
