Abstract
Infectious episodes can definitively compromise tissue-specific immune responses, particularly in the mucosa. At the Laboratory of Mucosal Immunology (ICB/USP), we studied the long-term effects of acute episodes of infection in the gut and lung mucosa. After certain models of acute gastrointestinal infection (Y. pseudotuberculosis, T. gondii and Citrobacter rodentium) there may be an incr…