infection is associated with CD4+ T cells that produce IFN-γ and IL-17 (Alexander and Bryson, 2005; Ghosh et al., 2013), which stimulate phagocytic cells to express inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and generate nitric oxide (NO; Swihart et al., 1995; Nascimento et al., 2014), the main mechanism by which intracellular parasites are killed (Liew et al., 1997). This evidence concerns the gene IFNG and infection.