TLR4 and leptospirosis: To find out if replacing the murine TLR4 with human TLR4 affects the kinetics of leptospirosis progression, we compared infection in wild-type C57BL/6J (WT) and humanized TLR4/MD2 transgenic mice (huTLR4) and added a congenic murine mutant lacking the TLR4 receptor as control (muTLR4Lps-del).