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In the past year, the major advances in malaria antigenic variation have been concerned with the transcription and switching of variant antigen genes, and the functional expression of regions of the major variant antigen. Also, new variant gene families have been discovered as a result of the Malaria Genome Project.

Original publication

DOI

10.1016/S1369-5274(99)80074-5

Type

Journal article

Journal

Curr Opin Microbiol

Publication Date

08/1999

Volume

2

Pages

420 - 425

Keywords

Animals, Antigenic Variation, Humans, Malaria, Falciparum, Plasmodium falciparum