The within-host dynamics of African trypanosome infections

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1675, 2015, Pages

  Matthews, Keith R ^a   McCulloch, Richard ^b   Morrison, Liam J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antigenic variation; Quorum sensing; Transmission; Trypanosoma; Trypanosome; Within host dynamics

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; BLOOD; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; HEMOPARASITE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; PARASITISM; PATHOGENICITY; PROTOZOAN; SURVIVAL; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TSETSE FLY; VIRAL DISEASE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; GLOSSINA (GENUS); MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA;

PARASITE ANTIGEN; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; COINFECTION; GENE; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE EVASION; IMMUNOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; TRANSMISSION; TRYPANOSOMA; VIRULENCE; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; COINFECTION; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNE EVASION; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA; VIRULENCE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84936984379     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0288     Document Type: Review

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