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Multiple antigen peptide vaccines can also be designed to contain T and B epitope regions from numerous protein antigens derived from a complex infectious agent which could therefore confer broad protection without the potential dangers of an attenuated whole organism vaccine [ 16 ] . However, it is of note that occasionally a well-designed peptide-based vaccine can elicit strong antibody responses to the synthetic immunogen that do not confer protection from the parasite to which they were originally designed [ 23 ] . This may be due to either the induction of an inappropriate antibody isotype in the mouse strain used, or to an inadequate overall response.
For a set of viral nucleotide sequences, we determine the variants that confer selective advantage by measuring the empirical replacement to silent mutation ratio (R:S) of each possible amino acid replacement and then comparing this observed ratio to that which would be expected if mutation were unselected.
One type might be clones that carry M. tuberculosis genes that confer enhanced resistance to the antimicrobial processes of the macrophage.
Also, since many English words and their Classical Latin etymonds share little or no meaning, Classical Latin can at times hinder rather than help; for example, Classical Latin conferre has none of the present-day meanings of English confer . (Conversely, reading English meanings into Classical Latin words can be misleading.)
The fact that some proteins with Q/N-rich domains form self-propagating aggregates, while others can aggregate but cannot form prions, suggests that there should be some structural elements either within the Q/N-rich sequence or close to it that confer the ability to propagate.
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