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Tissue spaces are reservoirs of antigenic diversity for trypanosomes

30 Oct 2024

Sleeping sickness: pathogens play hide-and-seek. Great collaboration with the Mugnier lab

In a great collaboration with the Mugnier lab (Johns Hopkins University), we studied what the parasites 'do' outside the bloodstream.

Beaver AK, Keneskhanova Z, Cosentino RO, Weiss BL, Awuoche EO, Smallenberger GM, Buenconsejo GY, Crilly NP, Smith JE, Hakim JMC, Zhang B, Bobb B, Rijo-Ferreira F, Figueiredo LM, Aksoy S, Siegel TN, Mugnier MR* (2024)
Tissue spaces are reservoirs of antigenic diversity for Trypanosoma brucei.
Nature 636: 430-437, doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-08151-z

members of the Siegel lab are listed in bold
* corresponding authors

For a more general summary of the story see the LMU press release.