Structural analysis of adhesion molecules involved in malaria pathogenesis.

• Main Author: Preiser, Peter.
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Research Report
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences::Microbiology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/42827
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Malaria still remains a major global health problem infecting millions of people each year. The pathology associated with the disease is due to the cyclical invasion and destruction of the erythrocyte by the asexual stage of the parasite leading to anemia. In addition the sequestration of the infect...