Sunday, December 18, 2011

Researchers Mirror Human Response To Bacterial Infection And Resolution In Mice

Imitating human diseases using an animal model is a difficult task, but Thomas Jefferson University researchers have managed to come very close. Reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of Jefferson immunologists found that a specialized "human immune system" mouse model closely mimics a person's specific response and resolution of a tick-borne infection known as relapsing fever, caused by the bacteria Borrelia hermsii...

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