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Tsetse GmmSRPN10 Has Anti-complement Activity and Is Important for Successful Establishment of Trypanosome Infections in the Fly Midgut

The complement cascade in mammalian blood can damage the alimentary tract of haematophagous arthropods. As such, these animals have evolved their own repertoire of complement-inactivating factors, which are inadvertently exploited by blood-borne pathogens to escape complement lysis. Unlike the blood...

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Autores principales: Ooi, Cher-Pheng, Haines, Lee R., Southern, Daniel M., Lehane, Michael J., Acosta-Serrano, Alvaro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4287558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25569180
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0003448