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In the ongoing struggle against infectious diseases, the demand for translationally relevant preclinical models has never been greater. The advent of humanized mouse models—engineered to carry functional human genes, tissues, or immune systems—has fundamentally transformed the way we investigate pathogen biology and host responses.

In the realm of animal models used for studying infectious diseases, the mouse has established itself as a methodological standard ........ yet, at the heart of these studies, a discreet but powerful molecule can undermine results: ....