Plasmodium, an intracellular parasite within red blood cells, lacks the MCH Class I surface marker, making it susceptible to destruction by CD56+ NK cells.
Plasmodium, an intraerythrocytic parasite, lacks the MCH Class I surface marker and is therefore killed by CD56+ NK cells.
| Text | Plasmodium is an intraerythrocytic parasite which lacks what surface marker? MCH Class I::surface marker What type of immune cells can kill this organism then? |
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| Extra | Only killed by CD56+ NK cells |
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