Infections Make Mouse Immune System Act More Like That in Humans (IMAGE)

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Infections Make Mouse Immune System Act More Like That in Humans

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Skip Virgin, M.D., Ph.D., professor of microbiology, medicine, and pathology and immunology, has shown that infecting laboratory mice with the mouse equivalent of common human pathogens may make them better models for vaccine studies.

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Robert Boston/Washington University School of Medicine

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