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b+-thalassaemia, haemoglobin S and hereditary elliptocytosis in a Zaïrian family Institute of Tropical Medicine

G Van Ros, V Seynhaeve, L Fiasse

Band 3-mediated Plasmodium vivax invasion is associated with transcriptional variation in PvTRAg genes Institute of Tropical Medicine University of Antwerp

Katlijn De Meulenaere, Surendra Prajapati, Elizabeth Villasis, Bart Cuypers, Eline Kattenberg, Bernadine Kasian, Moses Laman, Leanne J Robinson, Dionicia Gamboa, Kris Laukens, et al.

The Plasmodium vivax reticulocyte invasion process is still poorly understood, with only a few receptor-ligand interactions identified to date. Individuals with the Southeast Asian ovalocytosis (SAO) phenotype have a deletion in the band 3 protein on the surface of erythrocytes, and are reported to have a lower incidence of clinical P. vivax malaria. Based on this observation, band 3 has been put forward as a receptor for P. vivax invasion, ...