Table 1.

Nucleotide and predicted amino acid sequences of Plasmodium falciparum LSA-1 84–92

										Field isolates
Amino acid and nucleotide sequence									Clones	1996	1997
L	T	M	S	N	V	K	N	V	NF54, CAMP	6/28	5/31
tta	acg	atg	tct	aat	gta	aaa	aat	gtg*		(21%)	(16%)
L	S	M	S	N	V	K	N	V	3D7, HB3	17/28	25/31
tta	tcg	atg	tct	aat	gta	aaa	aat	gtg		(61%)	(81%)
L	P	M	S	N	V	K	N	V	D10	5/28	1/31
tta	ccg	atg	tct	aat	gta	aaa	aat	gtg		(18%)	(3%)

^*LSA-1 nucleotides 325–354 (GenBank Accession no. X56203).