Long-term persistence of <i>L. donovani</i> amastigotes in the liver of <i>aly/aly</i> mice.

<p>Promastigotes of <i>L. donovani</i> were intravenously inoculated into <i>aly/+</i> (○) and <i>aly/aly</i> (•) mice, and at the indicated time points, parasite burdens in the liver were determined as LDU (A), and relative amounts of <i>Leishmania</i> gp63 gene to mouse housekeeping BDNF gene by qPCR (B). A typical result of two individual experiments is shown. Data are the mean ± SE for three mice of each strain. * <i>p</i><0.05; ** <i>p</i><0.01.