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Common strategies for antigenic variation by bacterial, fungal and protozoan pathogens.

Nature reviews. Microbiology ·Vol. 7 ·No. 7 ·2009-07-00 ·Pages 493-503

Deitsch KW, Lukehart SA, Stringer JR

Abstract

The complex relationships between infectious organisms and their hosts often reflect the continuing struggle of the pathogen to proliferate and spread to new hosts, and the need of the infected individual to control and potentially eradicate the infecting population. This has led, in the case of mammals and the pathogens that infect them, to an 'arms race', in which the highly adapted mammalian immune system has evolved to control the proliferation of infectious organisms and the pathogens have developed correspondingly complex genetic systems to evade this immune response. We review how bacterial, protozoan and fungal pathogens from distant evolutionary lineages have evolved surprisingly similar mechanisms of antigenic variation to avoid eradication by the host immune system and can therefore maintain persistent infections and ensure their transmission to new hosts.

MeSH Terms
Animals Antigenic Variation/genetics,physiology Bacteria/genetics,immunology,pathogenicity Eukaryota/genetics,immunology,pathogenicity Fungi/genetics,immunology,pathogenicity Host-Parasite Interactions Host-Pathogen Interactions Humans
Authors & Affiliations
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Deitsch Kirk W
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York 10021, USA. [email protected]
Lukehart Sheila A
Stringer James R
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Article Info
Journal
Nature reviews. Microbiology
Abbr.
Nat Rev Microbiol
ISSN
1740-1534
Published
2009-07-00
Epub
2009-00-08
Pages
493-503
Language
English
Region
England
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