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Natural resistance to infection with Legionella pneumophila: chromosomal localization of the Lgn1 susceptibility gene.
Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society - 1 Aug 1995
Beckers M C, Yoshida S, Morgan K, Skamene E, Gros P
Abstract excerpt
Legionella pneumophila is a strict intracellular pathogen that replicates in the professional phagocytes of the human and guinea pig host. Although murine macrophages from most inbred strains are non-permissive to intracellular replication of L. pneumophila, inflammatory macrophages from the mouse strain A/J are completely permissive to intracellular replication of this bacterium. This genetic difference is...
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