African trypanosomes: The genome and adaptations for immune evasion

Essays in Biochemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-62

  Rudenko, Gloria ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOSSINA (GENUS); GLOSSINIDAE; MAMMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PSEUDOGENE; REVIEW; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HUMANS; PSEUDOGENES; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 84861191631     PISSN: 00711365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BSE0510047     Document Type: Article

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