TF and parasitic infectious disease: Though TFTie2∆ mice developed parasitemia more rapidly than TFCtrl and TFLysM∆ mice (Fig 5A), resulting in a significantly higher peripheral parasite burden over the course of the experiment (Fig 5B), susceptibility to ECM in TFTie2∆ and TFLysM∆ mice was indistinguishable from TF intact (TFCtrl) controls (Fig 5C and 5D).