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. 1982 Feb;35(2):546–551. doi: 10.1128/iai.35.2.546-551.1982

Genetics of murine resistance to Trypanosoma cruzi.

T M Trischmann, B R Bloom
PMCID: PMC351075  PMID: 6799406

Abstract

Resistance to the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi is governed by multiple genetic factors, including at least one coded for by a locus in or near the major histocompatibility complex of the mouse. The influence of the H-2 locus on resistance was evident when H-2 congenic mice on a strain background of intermediate resistance were challenged or when the survival of H-2 typed F2 mice was followed. The H-2k haplotype of the susceptible C3H/An strain was associated with higher mortality when compared with the H-2b haplotype of the resistant C57BL/10 strain. Genetic studies showed that resistance was a dominant trait and increased with genetic heterozygosity. F1 mice derived from crosses between resistant and susceptible strains, or even between two susceptible strains, were much more resistant than either parent. Crosses between two resistant strains, C57BL/6J and DBA/2J, led to resistant progeny in the F1 and F2 generations; but when recombinant inbred strains derived from these parental strains were challenged, susceptible strains were identified, indicating that different genes were responsible for resistance in the two strains.

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