Vivaxin genes encode highly immunogenic, non-variant antigens on the Trypanosoma vivax cell-surface.

• Main Authors: Alessandra Romero-Ramirez (Author), Aitor Casas-Sánchez (Author), Delphine Autheman (Author), Craig W Duffy (Author), Cordelia Brandt (Author), Simon Clare (Author), Katherine Harcourt (Author), Marcos Rogério André (Author), Kayo José Garcia de Almeida Castilho Neto (Author), Marta M G Teixeira (Author), Rosangela Zacharias Machado (Author), Janine Coombes (Author), Robin J Flynn (Author), Gavin J Wright (Author), Andrew P Jackson (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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Trypanosoma vivax is a unicellular hemoparasite, and a principal cause of animal African trypanosomiasis (AAT), a vector-borne and potentially fatal livestock disease across sub-Saharan Africa. Previously, we identified diverse T. vivax-specific genes that were predicted to encode cell surface prote...