The Journal of Immunology, Vol 143, Issue 9 3031-3034, Copyright © 1989 by American Association of Immunologists

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Genetic regulation of early survival and cyst number after peroral Toxoplasma gondii infection of A x B/B x A recombinant inbred and B10 congenic mice

R McLeod, E Skamene, CR Brown, PB Eisenhauer and DG Mack
Department of Medicine, Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, IL 60616.

Genetics of two traits, survival and brain cyst number after peroral Toxoplasma gondii infection, were studied by using recombinant inbred strains of mice derived from resistant A/J (A) and susceptible C57BL/6J (B) progenitors, F1 progeny of crosses between A/J and C57BL/6J mice, and congenic mice (B10 background). Analysis of strain distribution pattern of survival of A x B/B x A recombinant mice indicated that survival is regulated by a minimum of five genes. One of these genes appears to be linked to the H-2 complex and another is related to an as yet unmapped gene controlling resistance to Ectromelia virus. Associations of defined traits with resistance or susceptibility to Toxoplasma cyst formation were also analyzed. Cyst number is regulated by a locus on chromosome 17 within 0 to 4 centimorgans of the H-2 complex (p = 0.001). Mice with the H-2a haplotype are resistant and those with the H-2b haplotype are susceptible. This analysis also indicated that the Bcg locus on chromosome 1 may effect cyst number (map distance = 12 centimorgans, p = 0.05). Resistance to cyst formation is a dominant trait. To analyze relative roles of H-2 and Bcg loci on cyst numbers, C57BL10 (B10)-derived congenic strains of mice with known H-2 and Bcg type were studied. These studies indicated that the H-2 complex locus has the primary effect on cyst number.

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