A master lock for deadly parasites

Wai-Hong Tham () and Alexander T. Kennedy
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Wai-Hong Tham: Wai-Hong Tham and Alexander T. Kennedy are at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia, University of Melbourne, Parkville.
Alexander T. Kennedy: Wai-Hong Tham and Alexander T. Kennedy are at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia, University of Melbourne, Parkville.

Nature, 2015, vol. 522, issue 7555, 158-159

Abstract: An RNA-interference screen has identified the protein CD55, expressed on the surface of red blood cells, as an essential receptor for infection of the cells by the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.

Date: 2015
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