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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1981-2-24
pubmed:abstractText
Schistosoma mansoni infections of CBA/J and C57BL/6 mice provided the hosts with partial protection against reinfection by S. mansoni cercariae. The level of protection, assayed by perfusion 21-25 days after challenge, varied over the course of infection. After patency the degree of resistance observed in CBA/J mice was related to the adult worm burden harbored by the mice. The same was initially true in C57BL/6 mice. Those C57BL/6 mice which lived until a chronic state of infection were rarely well protected and harbored few female worms. Strain differences were also apparent in that the number of worms required by C57BL/6 mice to establish the same level of protection as CBA/J mice was double that needed by CBA/J mice. Measurements were made of the newly formed egg-induced hepatic granulomas throughout the infection period (up to 30 weeks after infection). The data revealed that although the pattern by which C57BL/6 mice developed maximum granuloma formation and subsequent modulation was identical to that observed in CBA/J mice, C57BL/6 granulomas were consistently half the volume of their counterpart lesions in CBA/J mice.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0002-9637
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
29
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1279-85
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1980
pubmed:articleTitle
Differences in adult Schistosoma mansoni worm burden requirements for the establishment of resistance to reinfection in inbred mice. I. CBA/J and C57BL/6 mice.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't