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Andrea S Ropolo1, Alicia Saura, Pedro G Carranza
1Cátedra de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Haya de la Torre S/N, Pabellón Argentina 2do piso, Ciudad Universitaria, CP 5000 Córdoba, Argentina.
Abstract:
Giardia lamblia undergoes antigenic variation, a process that might allow the parasite to evade the host's immune response and adapt to different environments. Here we show that Giardia muris, a related species that naturally infects rodents, possesses multiple variant-specific surface proteins (VSPs) and expresses VSPs on its surface, suggesting that it undergoes antigenic variation similar to that of G. lamblia.
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