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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

MASON, Steven J.

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1976

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The resistance factor to Plasmodium vivax in blacks.

MILLER, Louis Howard (1935 – ) MASON, Steven J.
CLYDE, David Francis (1925 – 2002)
CLYDE, David Francis (1925 – 2002) & et al.

The authors showed that the Plasmodium vivax parasite requires the Fya/Fyb Duffy antigen/chemokine receptor on the surface of red blood cells for penetration of human red blood cells. Because most African and American…