Sleeping Sickness Parasites in Blood (VIDEO)
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In experiments, researchers tracked the continually changing protein coats that hide the sleeping sickness parasites from the immune system. Their results reveal an unexpected diversity in disguises present at any one time and challenge the conventional understanding of the dynamics that allow the parasite to persist. Above, parasites wriggle among red blood cells during an early stage infection in a mouse.
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Monica Mugnier/The Laboratory of Lymphocyte Biology/Rockefeller University
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