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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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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13 August 2017
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Mediators of inflammation
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| ISSN: | 1466-1861 |
| DOI: | 10.1155/2017/3260289 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/3260289 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/mi/2017/3260289/ 
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| Author Notes: | Julia Nau, Silvia Kathrin Eller, Johannes Wenning, Katrin Henrike Spekker-Bosker, Horst Schroten, Christian Schwerk, Andrea Hotop, Uwe Groß, and Walter Däubener |
| Summary: | 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-gamma-induced antiparasitic effector mechanisms are similar in pigs and humans. In addition, the severe immunosuppression during acute infection described in mice does not occur in the experimentally infected ones. Thus, we hypothesise that porcine Toxoplasma gondii infection data are more representative for human toxoplasmosis. We therefore suggest that the animal model chosen must be critically evaluated for its assignability to human diseases. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 25.04.2018 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1466-1861 |
| DOI: | 10.1155/2017/3260289 |