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Parasites have evolved an extraordinary variety of mechanisms for surviving in the face of the natural and acquired immune responses of their hosts. A selection of the mechanisms serves to illustrate the challenge involved in developing strategies for immunising against parasites.
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Bloom, B. Games parasites play: how parasites evade immune surveillance. Nature 279, 21–26 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/279021a0
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