Do trypanosome turncoats wait before they commit?
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Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 24894466.
- Also identified by DOI 10.7554/eLife.03176 and PMC identifier 4042340.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
The strategy that sleeping sickness parasites use to evade the mammalian immune system may be linked to the metamorphosis that allows them to transfer from mammals into tsetse flies.
Medical subject headings
- Antigenic Variation
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Genes, Protozoan
- Protozoan Proteins
- RNA, Protozoan
- Trypanosoma brucei brucei