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A postgenomic view of the heat shock proteins in kinetoplastids
25 Apr 2007
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The kinetoplastids Leishmania major, Trypanosoma brucei and Trypanosoma cruzi are causative agents of a diverse spectrum of human diseases: leishmaniasis, sleeping sickness and Chagas' disease, respectively. These protozoa possess digenetic life cycles that involve development in mammalian and insect hosts. It is generally accepted that temperature is a triggering factor of the developmental programme allowing...
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