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Immunopeptidomics of cutaneous leishmaniasis patients reveals the natural antigenic landscape

2026-01-06 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a skin disease caused by Leishmania infection, for which no licensed human vaccine exists. Protective immunity is largely T cell-mediated and depends on antigen presentation by MHC molecules, yet the naturally presented epitopes during human disease remain poorly defined. To address this gap, we performed mass spectrometry-based immunopeptidomics on lesional biopsies from 27 Ethiopian CL patients spanning the full clinical spectrum. We newly identified 333 MHC-I a...

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