Surface Sialic Acids Taken from the Host Allow Trypanosome Survival in Tsetse Fly Vectors

The African trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei, which causes sleeping sickness in humans and Nagana disease in livestock, is spread via blood-sucking Tsetse flies. In the fly's intestine, the trypanosomes survive digestive and trypanocidal environments, proliferate, and translocate into the salivar...

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Autores principales: Nagamune, Kisaburo, Acosta-Serrano, Alvaro, Uemura, Haruki, Brun, Reto, Kunz-Renggli, Christina, Maeda, Yusuke, Ferguson, Michael A.J., Kinoshita, Taroh
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 2004
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Brief Definitive Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2211819/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15136592
http://dx.doi.org/10.1084/jem.20030635

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2211819/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15136592
http://dx.doi.org/10.1084/jem.20030635

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