Antigenic variation as an exploitable weakness of babesial parasites.

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Babesia bovis and its bovine host interact in many ways, resulting in a range of disease and infection phenotypes. Host responses to the parasite elicit or select for a variety of responses on the part of the parasite, the full range of which is not yet known. One well-established phenomenon, thought to aid parasite survival by evasion of host adaptive immune responses, is the sequential expansion of...

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