Age-associated decline in resistance to Babesia microti is genetically determined

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 189, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1721-1728

  Vannier, Edouard ^a   Borggraefe, Ingo ^a,b   Telford III, Samuel R ^a,c   Menon, Sanjay ^a   Brauns, Timothy ^a   Spielman, Andrew ^a   Gelfand, Jeffrey A ^a   Wortis, Henry H ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD SMEAR; CELL PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEREDITY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; LYMPHOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCID MOUSE; SPLEEN CELL;

AGING; ANIMALS; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, SCID; PARASITEMIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN;

EID: 2442543094     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/382965     Document Type: Article

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