immune system
• mice show increased susceptibility to Citrobacter rodentium infection, showing increased spleen and intestine weights, bacterial numbers as much as 100-fold greater in the spleen, colon and feces, and structural disruption of the colon epithelium
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• mice challenged with Citrobacter rodentium begin to lose weight and die by day 13 of infection
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mortality/aging
• mice challenged with Citrobacter rodentium begin to lose weight and die by day 13 of infection
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