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Plasmodium falciparum malaria—sticky jams and PECAM pie

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PECAM-1/CD31 joins a number of other adhesion molecules as an endothelial receptor for malaria-infected red blood cells (pages 1405–1408).

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  2. Molecular Parasitology Group Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford, OX3 7LD, UK

    Alister G. Craig

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