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Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611-0880, USA. allred.vetmed3@mail.health.ufl.edu
Erythrocyte-dwelling parasites, such as Babesia bovis and Plasmodium falciparum, are not accessible to the host immune system during most of their asexual reproductive cycle because they are intracellular. While intracellular, the host immune response must be directed toward the surface of the infected erythrocyte. Immune individuals mount protective antibody and cell-mediated responses which eliminate most of the parasites, yet some survive to establish chronic infections. In this review, David Allred discusses some of the mechanisms used by these parasites to evade individual immune mechanisms targeting the infected erythrocyte to survive in the hostile environment of an effective immune response.
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