Trypanosomes expressing a mosaic variant surface glycoprotein coat escape early detection by the immune system

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 2690-2697

  Dubois, Melissa E ^a   Demick, Karen P ^a   Mansfield, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN STRUCTURE; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MOSAICISM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; B-LYMPHOCYTES; FEMALE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, SCID; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 17644405864     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.5.2690-2697.2005     Document Type: Article

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