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Abstract
This review considers whether the products of schistosomes in the mammalian host can be considered as virulence factors. These include: the cercarial secretions used in infection, those of the migrating schistosomulum, surface-exposed proteins of adult worms in the portal system and their gut vomitus in the context of immune evasion, secretions of the egg facilitating its escape from gut tissues and micro-exon gene products.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22982150 DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2012.09.001
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Microbes Infect ISSN: 1286-4579 Impact factor: 2.700