Genetic dissection of innate immunity to infection: the mouse cytomegalovirus model.

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Resistance to infection is largely inherited rather than acquired, and is encoded by a definable set of host genes designated the 'resistome'. Logically speaking, piecemeal disruption of the resistome gives us the best chance to define it, and the most spectacular advances in understanding innate immunity have grown from spontaneous or induced germline mutations of the resistome. Mutations induced by random...

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