“…IDO activity has been recognized as one of the major response elements during infection of mammalian cells with a large variety of pathogens, including Gram‐positive and Gram‐negative bacteria, viruses and parasites such as Toxoplasma gondii and Leishmania donovani (Bortolotti et al, ; Dai, Pan, Kwok, & Dubey, ; Dӓubener & MacKenzie, ; Narui et al, ; Niño‐Castro et al, ; Pfefferkorn, ; Plain et al, ). The increase in IDO activity has been documented both in animals and in human in the course of different diseases (chronic lung inflammation in pigs, human streptococcal infection and toxic‐shock‐like syndrome [STSS]) (Dӓubener & MacKenzie, ; MacKenzie, Worku, & Dӓubener, ; Melchior, Sève, & Le Floc‘h, ; Murr, Gerlach, Widner, Dierich, & Fuchs, ).…”