Article
Susceptibility to progressive Cryptococcus neoformans pulmonary infection is regulated by loci on mouse chromosomes 1 and 9.
Infection and immunity - 1 Dec 2012
Carroll Scott F, Lafferty Erin I, Flaczyk Adam, Fujiwara T Mary, Homer Robert, Morgan Kenneth, Loredo-Osti J C, Qureshi Salman T
Abstract excerpt
Genetic factors that regulate the pathogenesis of pneumonia caused by the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans are poorly understood. Through a phenotypic strain survey we observed that inbred C3H/HeN mice develop a significantly greater lung fungal burden than mice of the resistant CBA/J strain 4 weeks following intratracheal infection with C. neoformans ATCC 24067. The aim of the present study was to characterize the...
Topics
- Animals
- Chromosomes, Mammalian
- Cryptococcosis
- Cryptococcus neoformans
- Cytokines
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Lung
- Lung Diseases, Fungal
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C3H
