The genetic basis of variation in susceptibility to infection with Histoplasma capsulatum in the mouse

Genes and Immunity

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 468-474

  Mayfield, J A ^a   Rine, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 15; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME 6; CHROMOSOME SUBSTITUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS IMMUNITY; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; INBREEDING; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MORBIDITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HISTOPLASMA; HISTOPLASMOSIS; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED A; MICE, INBRED C57BL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SPLEEN;

AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; MUS;

EID: 34548433981     PISSN: 14664879     EISSN: 14765470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.gene.6364411     Document Type: Article

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