Genetic control of parasite clearance leads to resistance to Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection and confers immunity

Genes and Immunity

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 416-421

  Campino, S ^a,b   Bagot, S ^c   Bergman, M L ^a,b   Almeida, P ^a   Sepulveda N ^a   Pied, S ^a,c   Penha Gonclves C ^a   Holmberg, D ^a,b   Cazenave, P A ^c  

^a INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Eexperimental cerebral malaria; Hyperparasitaemia; Inbred wild derived mouse strains; Nonparametric analysis; Plasmodium berghei; Quantitative trait loci

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 9; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC REGULATION; HEREDITY; IMMUNITY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MALARIA; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MALARIA; MICE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI;

EID: 22544439407     PISSN: 14664879     EISSN: 14765470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.gene.6364219     Document Type: Article

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