Trypanosoma vivax: Courses of infection with three stabilates in inbred mouse strains |
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Authors: | A.L.W. de Gee Smruti D. Shah J.J. Doyle |
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Affiliation: | International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases, P.O. Box 30709, Nairobi, Kenya |
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Abstract: | The courses of infection in inbred mouse strains were compared following infection with three Stabilates of high, intermediate, and low virulence of Trypanosoma vivax stock Zaria Y486. Mouse strains could only be shown to differ in their resistance to T. vivax infections as judged by the height of the initial parasitemia and survival times when a trypanosome population of low or intermediate virulence was used. A T. vivax population of high virulence was uniformly lethal. Comparison of lytic antibody titers between groups of resistant () and susceptible () mice did not show any significant differences in titers of the surviving mice but the mice in either group which did not control the initial parasitemia had lower lytic antibody titers than those which did. A significantly larger number of mice failed to control the initial infection as compared to the . Treatment with cyclophosphamide did not ablate differences in susceptibility between the two strains. The use of congenic mice showed that these differences in susceptibility were not related to differences in the major histocompatibility complex between these strains. |
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Keywords: | Protozoa, parasitic Hemoflagellate Parasitemia Survival time Immunosuppression Cyclophosphamide Immune response |
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