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Wound healing response is a major contributor to the severity of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the ear model of infection
19 Sept 2007
Abstract excerpt
In the conventional mouse model for cutaneous leishmaniasis involving infection with stationary phase Leishmania major promastigotes at the base of the tail, mice congenic for leishmaniasis resistance loci designated lmr1,2,3 cured their lesions more rapidly and laid down more ordered collagen fibres than the susceptible parental BALB/c mice, while the opposite was the case for the congenic mice carrying the...
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