Antigenic diversity is generated by distinct evolutionary mechanisms in African trypanosome species

Antigenic variation enables pathogens to avoid the host immune response by continual switching of surface proteins. The protozoan blood parasite Trypanosoma brucei causes human African trypanosomiasis (“sleeping sickness”) across sub-Saharan Africa and is a model system for antigenic variation, surv...

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Main Authors: Jackson, Andrew P., Berry, Andrew, Aslett, Martin, Allison, Harriet C., Burton, Peter, Vavrova-Anderson, Jana, Brown, Robert, Browne, Hilary, Corton, Nicola, Hauser, Heidi, Gamble, John, Gilderthorp, Ruth, Marcello, Lucio, McQuillan, Jacqueline, Otto, Thomas D., Quail, Michael A., Sanders, Mandy J., van Tonder, Andries, Ginger, Michael L., Field, Mark C., Barry, J. David, Hertz-Fowler, Christiane, Berriman, Matthew
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2012
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Biological Sciences
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3295286/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22331916
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1117313109
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