A cell-surface phylome for African trypanosomes.

• Main Authors: Andrew P Jackson (Author), Harriet C Allison (Author), J David Barry (Author), Mark C Field (Author), Christiane Hertz-Fowler (Author), Matthew Berriman (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The cell surface of Trypanosoma brucei, like many protistan blood parasites, is crucial for mediating host-parasite interactions and is instrumental to the initiation, maintenance and severity of infection. Previous comparisons with the related trypanosomatid parasites T. cruzi and Leishmania major...