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Antigenic variation of Anaplasma marginale by expression of MSP2 mosaics.
Infection and immunity - 1 Nov 2000
Barbet A F, Lundgren A, Yi J, Rurangirwa F R, Palmer G H
Abstract excerpt
Anaplasma marginale is a tick-borne pathogen, one of several closely related ehrlichial organisms that cause disease in animals and humans. These Ehrlichia species have complex life cycles that require, in addition to replication and development within the tick vector, evasion of the immune system in order to persist in the mammalian reservoir host. This complexity requires efficient use of the small ehrlichial...
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