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Chromosomal mapping of host susceptibility loci to Angiostrongylus costaricensis nematode infection in mice.
Immunogenetics - 1 Feb 2002
Ohno Tamio, Ishih Akira, Tanaka Shin, Nishimura Masahiko, Terada Mamoru
Abstract excerpt
Angiostrongylus costaricensis is a nematode found mainly as a rodent parasite. Laboratory mice were experimentally infected with this parasite. It is known that there is great variability in mortality among inbred mouse strains after infection with this nematode. The survival rate at 5 weeks after infection of A/J mice was 90.5%, whereas that of SM/J mice was only 33.3%, with severe anemia and decreased body...
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