An immunological marker of tolerance to infection in wild rodents.

Hosts are likely to respond to parasitic infections by a combination of resistance (expulsion of pathogens) and tolerance (active mitigation of pathology). Of these strategies, the basis of tolerance in animal hosts is relatively poorly understood, with especially little known about how tolerance is...

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Main Authors: Joseph A Jackson, Amy J Hall, Ida M Friberg, Catriona Ralli, Ann Lowe, Malgorzata Zawadzka, Andrew K Turner, Alexander Stewart, Richard J Birtles, Steve Paterson, Janette E Bradley, Mike Begon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-07-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/25004450/?tool=EBI