Taenia crassiceps in the rat: differences in susceptibility to infection and development of immunocompetence in relation to age and host strain. |
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| Authors: | M J Anderson J F Griffin |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Microbiology, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand |
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| Abstract: | The influence of host strain and age upon susceptibility of rats to infection with Taenia crassiceps metacestodes was examined. The polyclonal T-cell activators concanavalin-A and phytohaemagglutinin were used to demonstrate that the onset of host resistance to infection with the cestode is coincident with the acquisition of responsiveness to mitogens in the post-natal maturation of the AS2 rat. |
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| Keywords: | Taenia crassiceps rat infection strain susceptibility ontogeny of immuno-competence |
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