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Malaria
New findings in malaria described by R. Chaudhuri and co-researchers
November 26th, 2008
"The sequencing of genomes of the Plasmodium species causing malaria, offers immense opportunities to aid in the development of new therapeutics and vaccine candidates through Bioinformatics tools and resources. The starting point of MalVac database is the collection of known vaccine candidates and a set of predicted vaccine candidates identified from the whole proteome sequences of Plasmodium species provided by PlasmoDb 5.4 release ( 31st October 2007)," researchers in Delhi, India report. "These predicted vaccine candidates are the adhesins and adhesin-like proteins from Plasmodium species, Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium yoelii. Subsequently,...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-11-26)
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