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A perspective on clonal phenotypic (antigenic) variation in protozoan parasites.

Parasitology - 1 Jan 2002

Turner C M R

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Intra-clonal phenotypic (antigenic) variation is used by many pathogens to evade the consequences of immune-mediated killing by mammalian hosts. In this substantially theoretical article, I emphasise that antigenic variation (sensu stricto) involves no change in genotype; its importance as a mechanism for promoting pathogen transmission and its polyphyletic origin. From a functional perspective, antigenic...

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PMID: 12622325
DOI: 10.1017/s0031182002002470

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