Transient cross-reactive immune responses can orchestrate antigenic variation in malaria.
The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum has evolved to prolong its duration of infection by antigenic variation of a major immune target on the surface of the infected red blood cell. This immune evasion strategy depends on the sequential, rather than simultaneous, appearance of immunologically d...
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| Formato: | Journal article |
| Idioma: | English |
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2004
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