Cryptococcosis in beige mice: the effect of congenital defects in innate immunity on susceptibility.

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The influence of the beige (bg/bg) mutation on susceptibility to cryptococcosis was assessed by mortality, quantitative culturing, and histopathology of infected organs from bg/bg and bg/+ mice. Immunodeficient bg/bg mice were more susceptible to systemic cryptococcosis than immunocompetent bg/+ mice. Differences in susceptibility of bg/bg and bg/+ mice corresponded with temporal differences in histopathology. In...

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