Combinatorial selection of high affinity RNA ligands to live African trypanosomes

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African trypanosomiasis is a parasitic disease caused by a specific class of protozoan organisms. The best-studied representative of that group is Trypanosoma brucei which is transmitted by tsetse flies and multiplies in the blood of many mammals. Trypanosomes evade the immune system by altering their surface structure which is dominated by a layer of a variant surface glycoprotein (VSG). Although invariant...

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