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How protozoan parasites evade the immune response

Sergio Zambrano-Villa et al. Trends Parasitol. 2002 Jun.

Abstract

Protozoan pathogens such as Plasmodium, Leishmania, Trypanosoma and Entamoeba are responsible for several of the most widespread and lethal human diseases. Their successful survival depends mainly on evading the host immune system by, for example, penetrating and multiplying within cells, varying their surface antigens, eliminating their protein coat, and modulating the host immune response. Immunosuppression is sometimes caused directly by parasite products and sometimes involves antigenic mimicry, which often appears in association with parasitic diseases. However, one of the most sophisticated mechanisms of evasion is the selective activation of a subset of T helper cells.

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