7.340 Immune Evasion: How Sneaky Pathogens Avoid Host Surveillance, Spring 2004

7.340 Immune Evasion: How Sneaky Pathogens Avoid Host Surveillance, Spring 2004

Every infection consists of a battle between the invading pathogen and the resisting host. To be successful, a pathogen must escape the many defenses of the host immune system until it can replicate and spread to another host. A pathogen must prevent one of three stages of immune function: detection...

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Main Author: Halme, Dina Gould
Language:en-US
Published: 2023
Subjects:
immunology
immune system
immune evasion
pathogen
effector function
infections
Human cytomegalovirus
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
CD4 cells
CD8 cells
T cells
surace receptors
cell lysis
host-pathogen interactions
host surveillance
antibodies
MHC class I
blood-borne pathogens
macrophages
phagocytosis
endocytosis
degradation
antigen
apoptosis
cytokines
immune response
260507
Immunology
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/148362

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