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Susceptibility to re-infection in C57BL/6 mice with recombinant strains of Toxoplasma gondii.
Experimental parasitology - 1 Aug 2011
Brandão Geane P, Melo Maria N, Caetano Braulia C, Carneiro Cláudia M, Silva Letícia A, Vitor Ricardo W A
Abstract excerpt
This work reports results of re-infection of BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice with different recombinant strains of Toxoplasma gondii. Mice were prime-infected with the non-virulent D8 strain and challenged with virulent strains. PCR-RFLP of cS10-A6 genetic marker of T. gondii demonstrated that BALB/c mice were re-infected with the EGS strain, while C57BL/6 mice were re-infected with the EGS and CH3 strains. Levels of...
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