Immune Selection and Within-Host Competition Can Structure the Repertoire of Variant Surface Antigens in Plasmodium falciparum - A Mathematical Model

• Sander P. van Noort ,

  * E-mail: vnoort@igc.gulbenkian.pt

  Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Marta C. Nunes,

  Affiliation Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Gareth D. Weedall,

  Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Lars Hviid,

  Affiliation Centre for Medical Parasitology at University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• M. Gabriela M. Gomes

  Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

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