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SUBMITTER: Lopez MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3230740 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lopez Miguel A MA Nguyen HoangKim T HT Oberholzer Michael M Hill Kent L KL
Current opinion in microbiology 20111021 6
Protozoan parasites cause tremendous human suffering worldwide, but strategies for therapeutic intervention are limited. Recent studies illustrate that the paradigm of microbes as social organisms can be brought to bear on questions about parasite biology, transmission and pathogenesis. This review discusses recent work demonstrating adaptation of social behaviors by parasitic protozoa that cause African sleeping sickness and malaria. The recognition of social behavior and cell-cell communicatio ...[more]