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Factors affecting the acquisition of resistance to Schistosoma japonicum in the mouse: II. Evidence that resistance to reinfection is not mediated by specific effector mechanisms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

N. A. Moloney  and
G. Webbe
N. A. Moloney
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Helminthology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Winches Farm Field Station, 395 Hatfield Road, St Albans, Herts
G. Webbe
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Helminthology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Winches Farm Field Station, 395 Hatfield Road, St Albans, Herts
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Summary

The skin phase of schistosomular migration was neither essential for the induction or expression of acquired resistance since mice given primary infections by the intraperitoneal route were as resistant to intra-peritoneal or percutaneous challenge as were mice given their primary infections percutaneously. Serum taken from resistant donors with acute or chronic infections conferred no ability to resist infection upon recipient mice. In two experiments mice that were deprived of their T-cells were as resistant to infection as intact mice and both types of host had comparable tissue egg loads and liver pathology. In a third experiment the immune-deprived mice had lower tissue egg counts than the intact mice and were less resistant to challenge. It is suggested that specific immune effector mechanisms may not be involved in acquired resistance to reinfection but rather that resistance is affected by the T-cell independent immunopathology induced by tissue-bound Schistosoma japonicum eggs.

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Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 89 , Issue 2 , October 1984 , pp. 361 - 368
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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