How Malaria Parasites Avoid Running Out of Ammo.

The article discusses a research paper on the continuous generation of antigenic diversity during persistent malaria infections. It references the study "Generation of Antigenic Diversity in Plasmodium Falciparum by Structured Rearrangement of Var Genes During Mitosis," by A. Claessens et al. in the same issue of "PLOS Genetics." It discusses the link between antigenic variation, sequestration and pathology, and analysis of subclones of the 3D7 parent clone.