Role for parasite genetic diversity in differential host responses to Trypanosoma brucei infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1096-1108

  Morrison, Liam J ^a   McLellan, Sarah ^a   Sweeney, Lindsay ^a   Chan, Chi N ^a   MacLeod, Annette ^a   Tait, Andy ^a   Turner, Michael R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANEMIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEPATOMEGALY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOCYTOSIS; SPLENOMEGALY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANEMIA; ANIMALS; ERYTHROPOIETIN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC VARIATION; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-12; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; RETICULOCYTOSIS; SPLENOMEGALY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

EID: 77349106654     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00943-09     Document Type: Article

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