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Emerging challenges in understanding trypanosome antigenic variation

Many pathogens evade host immunity by periodically changing the proteins they express on their surface — a phenomenon termed antigenic variation. An extreme form of antigenic variation, based around switching the composition of a variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) coat, is exhibited by the African t...

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Autores principales: McCulloch, Richard, Cobbold, Christina A., Figueiredo, Luisa, Jackson, Andrew, Morrison, Liam J., Mugnier, Monica R., Papavasiliou, Nina, Schnaufer, Achim, Matthews, Keith
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Portland Press Ltd. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6162063/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30271884
http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/ETLS20170104