Antigenic variation in Trypanosoma brucei: analysis of its control and a transcription factor involved

African trypanosomes are a major plague in sub-Saharan Africa. They cause sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in cattle. These parasites are transmitted between their mammalian hosts by tsetse flies. They are adapting to their different environments through differentiation processes. These proces...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kassem, Ali
Other Authors: Pays, Etienne
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:fr
Published: Universite Libre de Bruxelles 2015
Subjects:
VSG
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209111