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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1980-8-28
pubmed:abstractText
Mice were infected with an avirulent cyst-producing strain of Toxoplasma gondii and given injections of louping-ill virus 7 days later; control mice were given virus but not Toxoplasma. Test and control mice were then killed, in groups, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 days later. In the dually infected mice viraemia was later, greater and more prolonged; titres of virus recovered from brain and spleen were greater; production and haemagglutinating antibody to louping-ill virus was later and less, and inflammation in the brain was more severe, than in mice given virus alone. We suggest that T. gondii suppressed the immunity of mice, making them more susceptible to the virus, and that a significant proportion of the increased number of inflammatory cells observed in the brain could have been toxoplasma specific and not virus-specific and hence contributed to the increased susceptibility of the dually infected mice to louping-ill virus.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0022-2615
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
13
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
313-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1980
pubmed:articleTitle
Immunosuppression in toxoplasmosis: further studies on mice infected with louping-ill virus.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study