By comparing the genomes of malaria parasites that affect chimpanzees and those that affect humans, researchers discovered that it is the difference in the parasites’ surface proteins that determine which host it will infect.
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Why humans don’t suffer from chimpanzee malaria: DNA region controlling red blood cell invasion holds genetic key to infection
9 septiembre 2014
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