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Genetic control of parasite clearance leads to resistance to Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection and confers immunity.
Genes and immunity - 1 Aug 2005
Campino S, Bagot S, Bergman M-L, Almeida P, Sepúlveda N, Pied S, Penha-Gonçalves C, Holmberg D, Cazenave P-A
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Unprecedented cure after infection with the lethal Plasmodium berghei ANKA was observed in an F2 progeny generated by intercrossing the wild-derived WLA and the laboratory C57BL/6 mouse strains. Resistant mice were able to clear parasitaemia and establish immunity. The observed resistance was disclosed as a combinatorial effect of genetic factors derived from the two parental strains. Genetic mapping of survival...
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