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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Infect Genet Evol. 2010 Jan 25;10(2):298–303. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2010.01.006

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Types of circumsporozoite protein (CSP) central repeats in 45 sympatric isolates of Plasmodium vivax from Acre, Brazil. Different shading patterns of boxes represent each of the six variants of nonapeptide repeats found in these VK210-type sequences. The number of isolates sharing the same csp type is indicated within brackets. Numbers within the boxes represent different nucleotide sequences (termed repeat allotypes or RATs) that encode the same nonapeptide; these sequences are shown in Table 1. The csp types IVa and IVb are identical at the amino acid level (i. e., they are represented by boxes with identical shading pattern), but their fourth, eighth and eleventh copies of the nonapeptide repeat are encoded by different RATs (represented by different numbers within the boxes).