Neurological and behavioral abnormalities, ventricular dilatation, altered cellular functions, inflammation, and neuronal injury in brains of mice due to common, persistent, parasitic infection

Gretchen Hermes^1,2 , James W Ajioka³ , Krystyna A Kelly³ , Ernest Mui¹ , Fiona Roberts⁴ , Kristen Kasza⁵ , Thomas Mayr³ , Michael J Kirisits^1,2 , Robert Wollmann⁶ , David JP Ferguson⁷ , Craig W Roberts⁸ , Jong-Hee Hwang⁹ , Toria Trendler^1,2 , Richard P Kennan⁹ , Yasuhiro Suzuki¹⁰ , Catherine Reardon³ , William F Hickey¹¹ , Lieping Chen¹² and Rima McLeod^1,2,13

¹  Department of Ophthalmology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

²  Committee on Immunology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

³  Department of Pathology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

⁴  University Department of Pathology, Western Infirmary, Glasgow, UK

⁵  Department of Health Studies, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

⁶  Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

⁷  Nuffield Department of Pathology, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

⁸  Department of Immunology, Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

⁹  Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA

¹⁰  Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA

¹¹  Department of Pathology, Dartmouth University School of Medicine, Hanover, NH, USA

¹²  Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

¹³  Department Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases); Committees on Molecular Medicine, Genetics, and The College, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA