Evaluation of mechanisms that may generate DNA lesions triggering antigenic variation in African trypanosomes

• Marcelo Santos da Silva ,

  * E-mail: marcelo.dsilva@butantan.gov.br (MSdS); richard.mcculloch@glasgow.ac.uk (RM)

  Affiliations Laboratório Especial de Ciclo Celular, Center of Toxins, Immune Response and Cell Signaling (CeTICS), Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil, The Wellcome Centre for Molecular Parasitology, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4203-9299

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• Galadriel A. Hovel-Miner,

  Affiliation The George Washington University, Department of Microbiology Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5995-9329

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• Emma M. Briggs,

  Affiliation The Wellcome Centre for Molecular Parasitology, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6740-8882

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• Maria Carolina Elias,

  Affiliation Laboratório Especial de Ciclo Celular, Center of Toxins, Immune Response and Cell Signaling (CeTICS), Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Richard McCulloch

  * E-mail: marcelo.dsilva@butantan.gov.br (MSdS); richard.mcculloch@glasgow.ac.uk (RM)

  Affiliation The Wellcome Centre for Molecular Parasitology, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5739-976X

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