Characterisation of the mechanism of human serum resistance in T.b.gambiense

The two human pathogenic sub-species T.b.gambiense and T.b.rhodesiense can be distinguished from the morphologically identical T.b.brucei by their ability to infect humans, enabling them to cause sleeping sickness. This is because they are resistant to lysis by the lytic factor (APOL-I) present in n...

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Main Author: Felu, Cécile
Other Authors: Pays, Etienne
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:fr
Published: Universite Libre de Bruxelles 2006
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210844