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The importance of parasite load in the killing of Plasmodium vinckei in mice treated with Corynebacterium parvum or alloxan monohydrate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

F. E. G. Cox  and
Stephanie M. Millott
F. E. G. Cox
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS
Stephanie M. Millott
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS
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Summary

Mice pre-treated with Corynebacterium parvum and later challenged with Plasmodium vinckei become infected but do not die whereas control mice do. When pre-treated mice were challenged with 1, 10, 1 × 102, 1 × 104, 1 × 105 or 1 × 106 parasites, the pre-patent periods correlated directly with the number of parasites injected, but the subsequent parasitaemias reached similar levels. This suggests that parasite killing, resulting from pre-treatment with C. parvum, is not triggered until the parasite load has reached a particular threshold. The injection of alloxan monohydrate, which brings about the release of toxic oxygen inter mediates thought to be involved in non-specific immunity, has little effect on P. vinckei infections until the parasitaemia is relatively high. This indicates that oxygen-mediated parasite killing also does not occur until the parasitaemia has reached a particular threshold. It is suggested that it is only at relatively high parasitaemias that the factors involved in parasite killing are able to enter the infected red blood cells.

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Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 89 , Issue 3 , December 1984 , pp. 417 - 424
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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