Trypanosomal immune evasion, chronicity and transmission: An elegant balancing act

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 431-438

  MacGregor, Paula ^a   Szöo'R, Balazs ^a   Savill, Nicholas J ^a   Matthews, Keith R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; AUTOPHAGY; BALANCING SELECTION; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHRONICITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA RECOMBINATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONVERSION; HUMAN; IMMUNE EVASION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIFE CYCLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; PEROXISOMAL TARGETING SIGNAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SENESCENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE; TSETSE FLY;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNE EVASION; MALARIA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TSETSE FLIES;

GLOSSINA (GENUS); TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 84861200974     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2779     Document Type: Review

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