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Malaria Vaccines
Research on malaria vaccines described by scientists at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Department of Biotechnology
September 3rd, 2008
A new study, 'Plasmodium vivax: sequence polymorphism and effect of natural selection at apical membrane antigen 1 (PvAMA1) among Indian population,' is now available. "Present study describes the characterization of apical membrane antigen 1 (PvAMA1) polymorphisms among Indian Plasmodium vivax isolates. The partial PvAMA1 gene (covering domain I and domain II regions) sequenced from sixty-one (n=61) isolates in this study resulted into 49 haplotypes," researchers in New Delhi, India report. "Comparison with the previously available PvAMA1 sequences in the GenBank database revealed that 45 of these were new haplotypes that have never been reported till date. For...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-09-03)
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