Experimental Porcine Toxoplasma gondii Infection as a Representative Model for Human Toxoplasmosis

Porcine infections are currently not the state-of-the-art model to study human diseases. Nevertheless, the course of human and porcine toxoplasmosis is much more comparable than that of human and murine toxoplasmosis. For example, severity of infection, transplacental transmission, and interferon-ga...

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Main Authors: Julia Nau, Silvia Kathrin Eller, Johannes Wenning, Katrin Henrike Spekker-Bosker, Horst Schroten, Christian Schwerk, Andrea Hotop, Uwe Groß, Walter Däubener
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2017-01-01
Series:Mediators of Inflammation
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/3260289