Antigenic polymorphism in malaria: is it
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Kamini N. Mendis; Peter H. David; Richard Carter
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Article
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1991
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Malarial infections do not readily evoke an effective protective immunity against re-infection. Possible reasons for this include the ability of the parasites to interfere with the host's immune response and to evade the response in an immune host, by, for example, exploiting antigenic polymorphism