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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Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
Language: | fr |
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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 |