… the response of individual hosts to pathogen challenge in terms of infection severity and
impact on host … in pathogen burden in a host population) to the level of individuals. The second …

… individual host, addressing physiological, rather than evolutionary (genetic), processes. The
… in terms of individual hosts finding their own optimum immune response, and therefore their …

… epidemiological studies to directly pinpoint the genes responsible for leprosy outcome. …
genetic markers could be used to screen high-risk populations introducing gene testing as …

… microbiological testing (257, 312), analysis of the host response (150), and genetic analyses
(… of rapid and simple diagnostic tests based on host salivary or immune factors may facilitate …

… We also show that underlying genetic variation affects the individual immune response
transcriptomic signature in the context of disease. Our integrated, translational genomics …

… Our study confirms the importance of the HLA region in host response to viral infection and
elucidates novel genetic determinants beyond the HLA that contribute to host-virus interaction…

… to present an analysis of the different levels at which genetic factors could … immune response
to a specific antigen. In studying any genetically controlled immune response to a specific …

… In this study, we sought to link the induced host cellular response (a systemic immune
response) with infection success in a host–parasite system that exhibits strong genetic specificity …

… In the following brief review, we restrict our comments to the study of host response to
infection using DNA microarrays and not to the use of microarrays to study global microbial …

… and that the strain-specific pathogenesis is not simply due to a difference in the magnitude
of the same pathways. Our results will include any host responses caused by any differences …