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Two Markers Developed for P. falciparum Transfection

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, August 9th, 1999

Researchers developed two markers for Plasmodium falciparum transfection.

The ability to use these markers for malaria transfection should facilitate the development of drug and vaccine targets, indicated Choukri Ben Mamoun and colleagues, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri ("A Set of Independent Selectable Markers for Transfection of the Human Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 20, 1999;96(15):8716-8720).

Although genomic information is accumulating rapidly for the human malaria pathogen, P. falciparum, the ability to perform genetic...

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