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Parasite Infection

Parasites have evolved a wide range of mechanisms that they use to evade or manipulate the host’s immune response and establish infection.Infections with viruses, bacteria and parasites have been recognized for years to be associated with human carcinogenicity.Hosts respond to various infections by sensing certain evolutionarily conserved molecules (signature structures) of pathogens called pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs); these include bacterial LPS and peptidoglycan, fungal glucans, and microbial DNA and RNA, and even self-DNA under certain pathologic conditions.

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