[ James A. Shapiro ] James A. Shapiro


Phase and antigenic variation

(Wilske, Barbour et al. 1992; Komano, Kim et al. 1994; Restrepo, Carter et al. 1994; Danaher, Levin et al. 1995; Borst, Rudenko et al. 1996; Blomfield, Kulasekara et al. 1997; Gyohda and Komano 2000; Komano, Yoshida et al. 2000; van der Ende, Hopman et al. 2000; Bhattacharya, Bakre et al. 2002; Flitman-Tene, Mudahi-Orenstein et al. 2003; Tam, Hackett et al. 2004; Vial, Pothier et al. 2004; Criss, Kline et al. 2005; Gyohda, Zhu et al. 2006; Vial, Lavire et al. 2006; Wisniewski-Dye and Vial 2008; Ambur, Davidsen et al. 2009; Deitsch, Lukehart et al. 2009; Hill and Davies 2009; Srikhanta, Dowideit et al. 2009; Bikard and Marraffini 2011; Goto, Duthie et al. 2011; Guo, Tse et al. 2011)

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