Insights into mechanisms of bacterial antigenic variation derived from the complete genome sequence of Anaplasma marginale

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1078, Issue , 2006, Pages 15-25

  Palmer, Guy H ^a   Futse, James E ^a   Knowles Jr , Donald P ^b   Brayton, Kelly A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

A. Marginale; Anaplasma; Antigenic variation; Functional supergenes; Gene conversion; Immune evasion

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE CONVERSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; MSP2 GENE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PERSISTENT INFECTION;

ACARI; ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33845804685     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1374.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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