Infection of mice by a Toxoplasma gondii isolate from an AIDS patient: Virulence and activation of hosts' immune responses are independent of parasite genotype

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 649-657

  Haque, Sakhina ^a,b   Hanna, Stephane ^b   Gharbi, Severine ^b   Franck, Jacqueline ^b   Dumon, Henri ^b   Haque, Azizul ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

IFN ; NK cells; TNF ; Toxoplasma gondii; Virulence

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY CD3; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SURVIVAL; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, CD3; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN; TIME FACTORS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0032785547     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3024.1999.00273.x     Document Type: Article

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