Genetics and visceral leishmaniasis: Of mice and man

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 254-266

  Blackwell, J M ^a,b   Fakiola, M ^b   Ibrahim, M E ^c   Jamieson, S E ^a   Jeronimo, S B ^e   Miller, E N ^b   Mishra, A ^e   Mohamed, H S ^c   Peacock, C S ^a   Raju, M ^b   Sundar, S ^d   Wilson, M E ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^d BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Candidate genes; Genome scans; Leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALLELE; BANGLADESH; BRAZIL; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPOSURE; FAMILY; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RISK; GENETICS; GENOME; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; NEPAL; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SLC11A1 GENE; SUDAN; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; ASIA, WESTERN; BRAZIL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; SUDAN;

MUS;

EID: 64549109000     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: 13653024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3024.2009.01102.x     Document Type: Review

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