Chronic infection with Trypanosoma musculi in congenitally athymic nude mice.
Trypanosoma musculi produces a chronic infection with a consistently elevated parasitemia in nude mice. Thymic reconstitution of nude mice restores immunity to the infection.
D000818:Animals; D002908:Chronic Disease; D051379:Mice; D008819:Mice, Nude / Q000469:parasitology*; D014345:Trypanosoma / Q000276:immunology*; D014352:Trypanosomiasis / Q000276:immunology