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A Novel Nonclassic β 2-Microglobulin–Restricted Mechanism Influencing Early Lymphocyte Accumulation and Subsequent Resistance to Tuberculosis in the Lung
1 Aug 2000
Abstract excerpt
In this study, we compared the course of a low-dose aerosol Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in mice bearing gene disruptions for the beta2-microglobulin molecule, the CD8 molecule, and the CD1 molecule. Over the first 50 d of infection, the CD8- and CD1-disrupted mice were no more susceptible to infection than were the control mice. In contrast, the bacterial load in beta2-microglobulin gene-disrupted mice...
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