Mechanisms of Immunity toEhrlichia muris: a Model of Monocytotropic Ehrlichiosis

doi:10.1128/iai.72.2.966-971.2004

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Mechanisms of Immunity toEhrlichia muris: a Model of Monocytotropic Ehrlichiosis

24 Jan 2004

Abstract excerpt

Ehrlichia species can cause life-threatening infections or chronic persistent infections. Mechanisms of protective immunity were examined in an Ehrlichia muris mouse model of monocytotropic ehrlichiosis. C57BL/6 mice possessed strong genetic resistance to E. muris of an undetermined mechanism. CD8 T lymphocytes were particularly important, as revealed by 81% fatalities for E. muris-infected, major...

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