Infection biology: How one pathogen evades the immune system

(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit ä t M ü nchen) A research team of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munch led by Nicolai Siegel has uncovered a mechanism that enables theparasite that causes sleeping sickness in humans to escape the attention of the immune system. The finding may also be relevant to other infectious diseases.
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