Short communicationPresence of three distinct ookinete surface protein genes, Pos25, Pos28-1, and Pos28-2, in Plasmodium ovale☆
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We thank Dr. William E. Collins for providing P. ovale Nigerian I/CDC strain and Dr. Benjawan Khuntirat for providing P. ovale Thai isolates gDNA. This work was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research 11147220, 11670242, 12557026, 12670232, and 12770125, and Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas 08281104 from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture, and a Grant for Research on Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases (H12-Shinkou-17),
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Note: Nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper are available in the GenBank™, EMBL, and DDBJ databases under the accession numbers: AB051631–AB051633.