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Science 20 October 2000:
Vol. 290. no. 5491, p. 435
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5491.435
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VACCINES:
Malaria Parasite Outwits the Immune System

Gary Taubes

Given a few million years of evolutionary practice, the malaria parasite has become extraordinarily proficient at one task: evading the immune system of its human hosts. This it does in four distinct life stages.

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