Do trypanosome turncoats wait before they commit?
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Author(s)
Ooi, C-P
Rudenko, G
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The strategy that sleeping sickness parasites use to evade the mammalian immune system may be linked to the metamorphosis that allows them to transfer from mammals into tsetse flies.
Date Issued
2014-06-03
Date Acceptance
2014-06-03
Citation
eLife, 2014, 3
ISSN
2050-084X
Publisher
eLife Sciences Publications
Journal / Book Title
eLife
Volume
3
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© 2013 Ooi and Rudenko. This
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Biology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics
TRANSMISSION
Trypanosoma brucei
antigenic variation
developmental reprogramming
expression site attenuation
parasites
variant surface glycoprotein (VSG)
Antigenic Variation
Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
Genes, Protozoan
Humans
Protozoan Proteins
RNA, Protozoan
Trypanosoma brucei brucei
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
e03176