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ArticleJournal of biomedicine & biotechnology2010

Immunobiology of African trypanosomes: need of alternative interventions.

Toya Nath Baral

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Article in Journal of biomedicine & biotechnology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 86 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Toya Nath BaralInstitute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, 100 Sussex Dr. Ottawa, ON, Canada K1A 0R6. toyanath.baral@nrc.ca
Institute for Biological Sciences · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Trypanosomiasis is one of the major parasitic diseases for which control is still far from reality. The vaccination approaches by using dominant surface proteins have not been successful, mainly due to antigenic variation of the parasite surface coat. On the other hand, the chemotherapeutic drugs in current use for the treatment of this disease are toxic and problems of resistance are increasing (see Kennedy (2004) and Legros et al. (2002)). Therefore, alternative approaches in both treatment and vaccination against trypanosomiasis are needed at this time. To be able to design and develop such alternatives, the biology of this parasite and the host response against the pathogen need to be studied. These two aspects of this disease with few examples of alternative approaches are discussed here.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntigensDNADNA, KinetoplastFlagellaGenetic VariationGeographyGlycoproteinsHumansImmune SystemRNATrypanosomaTrypanosomiasis, AfricanVariant Surface Glycoproteins, TrypanosomaAntigensDNADNA, KinetoplastGlycoproteinsRNAVariant Surface Glycoproteins, Trypanosoma

Identifiers

PMID20182644
PMCPMC2826769
OpenAlexW1985364064

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