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ArticleInfection and immunity2011

Multigenic control and sex bias in host susceptibility to spore-induced pulmonary anthrax in mice.

Jagjit S Yadav, Suman Pradhan, Renuka Kapoor, Hansraj Bangar, Benjamin B Burzynski, Daniel R Prows, Linda Levin

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Article in Infection and immunity, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Clinical Features of Patients Hospitalized for All Routes of Anthrax, 1880-2018: A Systematic Review.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2022
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7 authors.

Jagjit S YadavMicrobial Pathogenesis Laboratory, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0056, USA. Jagjit.Yadav@uc.edu
Suman Pradhan
Renuka Kapoor
Hansraj Bangar
Benjamin B Burzynski
Daniel R Prows
Linda Levin

Funding

Genetic Determinants of Host Susceptibility to Pulmonary AnthraxR21AI070865 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI · PI YADAV, JAGJIT S · 2007 to 2008
$425k
NIAID NIH HHS AI070865NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI070865
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mechanisms underlying susceptibility to anthrax infection are unknown. Using a phylogenetically diverse panel of inbred mice and spores of Bacillus anthracis Ames, we investigated host susceptibility to pulmonary anthrax. Susceptibility profiles for survival time and organ pathogen load differed across strains, indicating distinct genetic controls. Tissue infection kinetics analysis showed greater systemic dissemination in susceptible DBA/2J (D) mice but a higher terminal bacterial load in resistant BALB/cJ (C) mice. Interestingly, the most resistant strains, C and C57BL/6J (B), demonstrated a sex bias for susceptibility. For example, BALB/cJ females had a significantly higher survival time and required 4-fold more spores for 100% mortality compared to BALB/cJ males. To identify genetic regions associated with differential susceptibility, survival time and extent of organ infection were assessed using mice derived from two susceptibility models: (i) BXD advanced recombinant inbred strains and (ii) F2 offspring generated from polar responding C and D strains. Genome-wide analysis of BXD strain survival identified linkage on chromosomes 5, 6, 9, 11, and 14. Quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis of the C×DF2 population revealed a significant QTL (designated Rpai1 for resistance to pulmonary anthrax infection, locus 1) for survival time on chromosome 17 and also identified a chromosome 11 locus for lung pathogen burden. The striking difference between genome-wide linkage profiles for these two mouse models of anthrax susceptibility supports our hypothesis that these are multigenic traits. Our data provide the first evidence for a differential sex response to anthrax resistance and further highlight the unlikelihood of a single common genetic contribution for this response across strains.

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Genetic Predisposition to DiseaseAnimalsAnthraxBacillus anthracisDisease Models, AnimalFemaleLung DiseasesMaleMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMice, Inbred C57BLMice, Inbred DBAPrejudiceQuantitative Trait LociRodent DiseasesSpores, Bacterial

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PMID21628518
PMCPMC3147590

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