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Recently, microarrays have also become a widely used tool for studying host-pathogen interactions from the perspective of both the host and the pathogen [ 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22].
A study in mice of resistance to Toxoplasma gondii showed that F 1 offspring of two genetically divergent parent strains were more resistant than either parent strain, but there seems to be no demonstration that heterozygosity at an MHC locus is responsible [ 18 ] , while another reference [ 19 ] that has been cited [ 10 ] as showing overdominance at MHC in the same host-pathogen system does not appear to address the question directly.
Although studies of global transcriptional changes in both host cell and bacterial pathogens have proved powerful tools in the study of host-pathogen interactions, they cannot fruitfully assist investigation of these types of events.
In vitro assays to quantify survival of bacteria in macrophages provide useful insights into host-pathogen relations.
One might expect the distribution to be skewed toward resistant alleles for diseases that have exerted long-term selection on a population, but it is difficult to make confident predictions about such patterns without detailed knowledge of host-pathogen coevolution.