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Malaria sporozoite proteome leaves a trail

Marissa Vignali1, Cate Speake1,2 and Patrick E Duffy1,2*

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1 Malaria Program, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA

2 Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA

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Genome Biology 2009, 10:216 doi:10.1186/gb-2009-10-4-216

Published: 21 April 2009

Abstract

The malaria parasite sporozoite proteome changes during maturation, revealing proteins specifically expressed in the stage that infects the human host.