AICDA and parasitic infectious disease: Conceding with the superior parasitemia control, T. evansi infected AID-/- mice are characterized by the preservation of their spleen B cell compartment, showing the full retention of FoBs and an improved maintenance of the MZB compartment (Fig 7A and 7B and S5A Fig), as well as preservation of the bone marrow pool of immature B cells (S5B Fig, lower panel).