HOST IMMUNOLOGICAL MECHANISMS IN RESISTANCE OF MICE TO LEPTOSPIRAL INFECTIONS
HOST IMMUNOLOGICAL MECHANISMS IN RESISTANCE OF MICE TO LEPTOSPIRAL INFECTIONS
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DOI:
10.1128/iai.17.1.67-72.1977
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发表时间:
1977-01-01
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
FAINE, S
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作者:
ADLER, B;FAINE, S
Several serovars of Leptospira virulent for hamsters and guinea pigs caused acute lethal leptospirosis in mice immunosuppressed with cyclophosphamide. Neither BCG vaccine nor Corynebacterium parvum suspension influenced the course of leptospiral infection in immunosuppressed or normal BALB/c mice. Nude athymic mice produced anti-leptospiral antibody and were therefore resistant to infection with leptospires. Nude mice were made susceptible with cyclophosphamide but were immune if they had acquired antibody from previous infection or immunization. Apparently mechanisms of resistance to primary infection and immunity to reinfection are exclusively humorally mediated in mice. The roles of host and microbial factors in the outcome of infection are discussed.