How do antigenically varying pathogens avoid cross-reactive responses to invariant antigens?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1739, 2012, Pages 2777-2785

  Johnson, Philip L F ^a   Kochin, Beth F ^a   Ahmed, Rafi ^a   Antia, Rustom ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic infection; Immune exhaustion; Immunodominance; Mathematical model

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MALARIA; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PROTOZOAN; VACCINATION;

EID: 84862118592     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0005     Document Type: Article

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