Insufficiently Defined Genetic Background Confounds Phenotypes in Transgenic Studies As Exemplified by Malaria Infection in Tlr9 Knockout Mice

• Nathalie Geurts,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Immunobiology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Erik Martens,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Immunobiology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Sebastien Verhenne,

  Current address: Interdisciplinary Research Center, University of Leuven at Kortrijk, Kortrijk, Belgium

  Affiliation Laboratory of Immunobiology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Natacha Lays,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Immunobiology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Greet Thijs,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Immunobiology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Stefan Magez,

  Affiliation Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

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• Bénédicte Cauwe,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Immunobiology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Sandra Li,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Immunobiology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Hubertine Heremans,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Immunobiology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Ghislain Opdenakker,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Immunobiology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Philippe E. Van den Steen

  * E-mail: Philippe.VandenSteen@rega.kuleuven.be

  Affiliation Laboratory of Immunobiology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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