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OBSOLETE. Any mechanism of active immune avoidance which works by regulating the symbiont complement system, e.g. by possessing complement receptors which mediate attachment to, then infection of, symbiont macrophages, which are eventually destroyed. The symbiont is defined as the smaller of the organisms involved in a symbiotic interaction. [http://www.brown.edu/Courses/Bio_160/Projects1999/ies/ces.html]
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