Hemoglobinopathies: slicing the Gordian knot of Plasmodium falciparum malaria pathogenesis.

Plasmodium falciparum malaria kills over 500,000 children every year and has been a scourge of humans for millennia. Owing to the co-evolution of humans and P. falciparum parasites, the human genome is imprinted with polymorphisms that not only confer innate resistance to falciparum malaria, but als...

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Main Authors: Steve M Taylor, Carla Cerami, Rick M Fairhurst
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/b786a980c330434f89ac4eb3d25c10a7
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