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Antigen Diversity in the Parasitic Bacterium Anaplasma phagocytophilum Arises from Selectively-Represented, Spatially Clustered Functional Pseudogenes

Anaplasma phagocytophilum is a tick-transmitted bacterial pathogen of humans and other animals, and is an obligate intracellular parasite. Throughout the course of infection, hosts acquire temporary resistance to granulocytic anaplasmosis as they develop immunity specific for the major antigen, majo...

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Autores principales: Foley, Janet E., Nieto, Nathan C., Barbet, Anthony, Foley, Patrick
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2789410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20016821
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008265