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Antigenic variation in babesiosis: is there more than one 'why'?
1Department of Pathobiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-0880, USA. allredd@mail.vetmed.ufl.edu
Microbes and Infection
|May 30, 2001
Abstract:
Many intraerythrocytic hemoparasites survive the host immune system through rapid antigenic variation. Among babesial parasites antigenic variation has been demonstrated convincingly only for Babesia bovis and Babesia rodhaini. The molecular basis for antigenic variation in babesial parasites and its possible connection with cytoadherence and sequestration are discussed.