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Article in Genome research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
- De Novo Assembly of the Trypanosoma congolense Genome Reveals an Organization Influenced by Antigenic Variation but Distinct from Trypanosoma brucei.Genome biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Bioengineered 3D microvessels and complementary animal models reveal mechanisms of Trypanosoma congolense sequestration.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Pathogenicity and virulence of African trypanosomes: From laboratory models to clinically relevant hosts.Virulence · 2023Review
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- Transcriptomic profiling of Trypanosoma congolense mouthpart parasites from naturally infected flies.Parasites & vectors · 2022Article
- Paving the Way: Contributions of Big Data to Apicomplexan and Kinetoplastid Research.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022Review
- Comparative Sensitivity and Specificity of the 7SL sRNA Diagnostic Test for Animal Trypanosomiasis.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Article
- Divergent metabolism between Trypanosoma congolense and Trypanosoma brucei results in differential sensitivity to metabolic inhibition.PLoS pathogens · 2021Article
- Reliable, scalable functional genetics in bloodstream-form Trypanosoma congolense in vitro and in vivo.PLoS pathogens · 2021Article
- Variant antigen diversity in Trypanosoma vivax is not driven by recombination.Nature communications · 2020Article
- VAPPER: High-throughput variant antigen profiling in African trypanosomes of livestock.GigaScience · 2019Article
- The Structure of a Conserved Telomeric Region Associated with Variant Antigen Loci in the Blood Parasite Trypanosoma congolense.Genome biology and evolution · 2018Article
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11 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
African trypanosomes are vector-borne hemoparasites of humans and animals. In the mammal, parasites evade the immune response through antigenic variation. Periodic switching of the variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) coat covering their cell surface allows sequential expansion of serologically distinct parasite clones. Trypanosome genomes contain many hundreds of
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