Re: parasitic strategies - mice

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Yeah, it doesnt say what kinda mice does it... and this paper is not in

pubmed; I dono if what I x-posted was the full text or what.

I know that many lab mouse strains will not develop disease when

injected with Bb. Some of them simply tolerate the low-level infection

they develop and gradually eliminate it (or not) without having

symptoms at any time. There may be others that are constitutively

invulnerable to Bb infection altogether; I'm not sure. I am pretty sure

there arent *any* that are vulnerable to chronic symptomatic disease,

but Pachner found macaques to be so, as I recall.

Anyway, I think these researchers would know to get a vulnerable mouse

strain, but there may be the possibility they could resist this

particular wild Bbsl isolate while still being vulnerable to common lab

Bbsl strains. A few genes can make a big difference in things...

> , awesome response, and I think these scenarios are very

> plausible. I just assumed that if they were injecting the woman's

> infection into mice, that the researchers wouldn't have done it

> unless they knew mice were capable of being infected with these

> particular organisms. Otherwise, it's kind of a crap shoot?

> Certainly, they wouldn't be THAT stupid. Well, on the other hand...

>

> :-)

>

> penny