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Données obtenues chez les Africains concernant certains facteurs de la susceptibilité des érythrocytes à Plasmodium falciparum et à Plasmodium vivax Institute of Tropical Medicine
Un cas d'ovalocytose chez un noir du Congo belge Institute of Tropical Medicine
Band 3-mediated Plasmodium vivax invasion is associated with transcriptional variation in PvTRAg genes Institute of Tropical Medicine University of Antwerp
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, ...