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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2013

Linking the antigen archive structure to pathogen fitness in African trypanosomes.

Erida Gjini, Daniel T Haydon, J D Barry, Christina A Cobbold

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. The within-host dynamics of African trypanosome infections.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2015
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4 authors.

Erida GjiniSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, College of Science and Engineering, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK. egjini@igc.gulbenkian.pt
Daniel T Haydon
J D Barry
Christina A Cobbold

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 055558Wellcome Trust 085349
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Systems that generate antigenic variation enable pathogens to evade host immune responses and are intricately interwoven with major pathogen traits, such as host choice, growth, virulence and transmission. Although much is understood about antigen switching at the molecular level, little is known about the cross-scale links between these molecular processes and the larger-scale within and between host population dynamics that they must ultimately drive. Inspired by the antigenic variation system of African trypanosomes, we apply modelling approaches to our expanding understanding of the organization and expression of antigen repertoires, and explore links across these scales. We predict how pathogen population processes are determined by underlying molecular genetics and infer resulting selective pressures on important emergent repertoire traits.

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Antigenic VariationGenetic FitnessAfricaAnimalsHost-Parasite InteractionsHumansModels, BiologicalPopulation DynamicsTrypanosomaTrypanosomiasis, African

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PMID23282992
PMCPMC3574339

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