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SUBMITTER: Ropolo AS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1201240 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ropolo Andrea S AS Saura Alicia A Carranza Pedro G PG Lujan Hugo D HD
Infection and immunity 20050801 8
Giardia lamblia undergoes antigenic variation, a process that might allow the parasite to evade the host's immune response and adapt to different environments. Here we show that Giardia muris, a related species that naturally infects rodents, possesses multiple variant-specific surface proteins (VSPs) and expresses VSPs on its surface, suggesting that it undergoes antigenic variation similar to that of G. lamblia. ...[more]