Increased resistance to Taenia crassiceps murine cysticercosis in Qa-2 transgenic mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 760-764

  Fragoso, Gladis ^a   Lamoyi, Edmundo ^a   Mellor, Andrew ^b   Lomeli, Ciro ^a   Hernández, Marisela ^a   Sciutto, Edda ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS   (Mexico)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CYSTICERCOSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HOST RESISTANCE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TAENIASIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0031906943     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.2.760-764.1998     Document Type: Article

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