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Naip5 affects host susceptibility to the intracellular pathogen Legionella pneumophila.
Current biology : CB - 8 Jan 2003
Wright Edward K, Goodart Sheryl A, Growney Joseph D, Hadinoto Vey, Endrizzi Matthew G, Long E Michelle, Sadigh Keyvan, Abney Andrew L, Bernstein-Hanley Isaac, Dietrich William F
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BACKGROUND: Legionella pneumophila is a gram-negative bacterial pathogen that is the cause of Legionnaires' Disease. Legionella produces disease because it can replicate inside a specialized compartment of host macrophages. Macrophages isolated from various inbred mice exhibit large differences in permissiveness for intracellular replication of Legionella. A locus affecting this host-resistance phenotype, Lgn1,...
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