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Susceptibility and resistance to pneumococcal disease in mice.
Briefings in functional genomics & proteomics - 1 Nov 2005
Kadioglu Aras, Andrew Peter W
Abstract excerpt
Although pneumococcus is a major pathogen of humans and, every year, the bacterium causes illness and death in millions of individuals, the genetic basis of susceptibility to the bacterium is unknown. Previous attempts to identify the gene explaining differing susceptibility to pneumococcal disease in humans have been without significant success. In order to develop new hypotheses that can be tested in humans,...
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