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Genotyping of polymorphic effectors of Toxoplasma gondii isolates from China.
Parasites & vectors - 21 Nov 2017
Cheng Weisheng, Wang Cong, Xu Ting, Liu Fang, Pappoe Faustina, Luo Qingli, Xu Yuanhong, Lu Fangli, Shen Jilong
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Toxoplasma gondii is an opportunistic protozoan apicomplexan and obligate intracellular parasite that infects a wide range of animals and humans. Rhoptry proteins 5 (ROP5), ROP16, ROP18 and dense granules 15 (GRA15) are the important effectors secreted by T. gondii which link to the strain virulence for mice and modulate the host's response to the parasite. Little has been known about these molecules...
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