Genetically diverse mice are novel and valuable models of age-associated susceptibility to Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Background Tuberculosis, the disease due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in the elderly. Use of mouse models may accelerate insight into the disease and tests of therapies since mice age thirty times faster than humans. However, the majority of TB rese...
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Autor*in:

Harrison, David E [verfasserIn]

Astle, Clinton M

Niazi, M Khalid Khan

Major, Samuel

Beamer, Gillian L

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E-Artikel

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

2014

Schlagwörter:

Tuberculosis

Rapamycin

HET3

DO

Diversity outbred

Genetically diverse population

Early Secreted Antigenic Target-6 (ESAT-6)

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© Harrison et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2014. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (

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Enthalten in: Immunity & ageing - London : BioMed Central, 2004, 11(2014), 1 vom: 16. Dez.

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volume:11 ; year:2014 ; number:1 ; day:16 ; month:12

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DOI / URN:

10.1186/s12979-014-0024-6

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SPR029198232

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