Trypanosome variant surface glycoproteins are recognized by self- reactive antibodies in uninfected hosts

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 4593-4597

  Muller N ^a,c   Mansfield, J M ^b   Seebeck, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Institute of Parasitology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 0029909057     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.11.4593-4597.1996     Document Type: Article

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