"Antigenic Variation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Change in the surface ANTIGEN of a microorganism. There are two different types. One is a phenomenon, especially associated with INFLUENZA VIRUSES, where they undergo spontaneous variation both as slow antigenic drift and sudden emergence of new strains (antigenic shift). The second type is when certain PARASITES, especially trypanosomes, PLASMODIUM, and BORRELIA, survive the immune response of the host by changing the surface coat (antigen switching). (From Herbert et al., The Dictionary of Immunology, 4th ed)
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D000940
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G05.365.073 G12.500.249
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| Concept/Terms |
Antigenic Variation- Antigenic Variation
- Antigenic Variability
- Variability, Antigenic
- Variation, Antigenic
- Antigen Variation
- Variation, Antigen
Antigen Switching- Antigen Switching
- Switching, Antigen
- Switching, Antigenic
- Antigenic Switching
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Antigenic Variation" by people in Profiles.
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Miller RH, Hathaway NJ, Kharabora O, Mwandagalirwa K, Tshefu A, Meshnick SR, Taylor SM, Juliano JJ, Stewart VA, Bailey JA. A deep sequencing approach to estimate Plasmodium falciparum complexity of infection (COI) and explore apical membrane antigen 1 diversity. Malar J. 2017 Dec 16; 16(1):490.
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Johnson WE, Desrosiers RC. Viral persistence: HIV's strategies of immune system evasion. Annu Rev Med. 2002; 53:499-518.
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Evans DT, Desrosiers RC. Immune evasion strategies of the primate lentiviruses. Immunol Rev. 2001 Oct; 183:141-58.
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Bolduc GR, Bouchet V, Jiang RZ, Geisselsoder J, Truong-Bolduc QC, Rice PA, Pelton SI, Goldstein R. Variability of outer membrane protein P1 and its evaluation as a vaccine candidate against experimental otitis media due to nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae: an unambiguous, multifaceted approach. Infect Immun. 2000 Aug; 68(8):4505-17.
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Desrosiers RC. Strategies used by human immunodeficiency virus that allow persistent viral replication. Nat Med. 1999 Jul; 5(7):723-5.
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Koziel MJ, Walker BD. Characteristics of the intrahepatic cytotoxic T lymphocyte response in chronic hepatitis C virus infection. Springer Semin Immunopathol. 1997; 19(1):69-83.
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Burns DP, Desrosiers RC. Envelope sequence variation, neutralizing antibodies, and primate lentivirus persistence. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol. 1994; 188:185-219.
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Burns DP, Desrosiers RC. Selection of genetic variants of simian immunodeficiency virus in persistently infected rhesus monkeys. J Virol. 1991 Apr; 65(4):1843-54.