Living with chronic infection: Persistent immunomodulation during avirulent haemoparasitic infection in a wild rodent
(2022)
Journal Article
Taylor, C. H., Friberg, I. M., Jackson, J. A., Arriero, E., Begon, M., Wanelik, K. M., …Bradley, J. E. (2023). Living with chronic infection: Persistent immunomodulation during avirulent haemoparasitic infection in a wild rodent. Molecular Ecology, 32(5), 1197-1210. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16819
Apicomplexans are a protozoan phylum of obligate parasites which may be highly virulent during acute infections, but may also persist as chronic infections which appear to have little fitness cost. Babesia microti is an apicomplexan haemoparasite tha... Read More about Living with chronic infection: Persistent immunomodulation during avirulent haemoparasitic infection in a wild rodent.