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Inhibition of Entamoeba histolytica in vitro by specific antibody*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Mitsuru Nakamura
Mitsuru Nakamura
Affiliation:
Department of Bacteriology, Montana State University, Missoula, and the Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston
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Bacteria-free cultures of E. histolytica have been inhibited by specific and related antibodies in the antisera produced in rabbits. Maximal culture-inhibiting antibodies were produced when the rabbits were immunized with frozen and thawed, formalin-treated trophozoites injected intravenously. Human sera from subjects with current or past histories of amoebiasis also inhibited growth of amoebae in vitro.

Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 49 , Issue 1-2 , May 1959 , pp. 104 - 107
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1959

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