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Higher levels of passive compared with active immunity in rats immunized with larval antigens of Schistosoma mansoni

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

B.W.L. Lawson ,
Q.D. Bickle  and
M.G. Taylor
B.W.L. Lawson
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
Q.D. Bickle*
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
M.G. Taylor
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
*
*Author for correspondence.
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Abstract

We have previously shown that it is the lung stage schistosomulum which is both the inducer and the target of immunity in rats vaccinated with irradiated cercariae but that rats can also be partially protected by immunization with detergent extracts of mechanically-transformed schistosomula. In the present study we therefore compared the immunogenicity of these and intermediate schistosomular stages. In the first experiment low levels of protection (13–24%) were induced by extracts of mechanically-transformed schistosomula cultured for 3 hours or 2 days but not by extracts of lung schistosomula. In a repeat experiment insignificant levels of protection were induced by extracts of 3 h schistosomula and lung schistosomula were again non-protective. Nevertheless, high levels of anti-schistosomula antibodies were demonstrated and sera from actively immunized rats conferred significant passive protection in five out of six trials. The levels of protection conferred by passive immunization (26–51%) were in each case higher than the levels of protection demonstrated in the respective serum donor groups, showing that some form of immunological blockade suppression is operating to prevent expression of protective immunity in the actively immunized rats.

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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 69 , Issue 1 , March 1995 , pp. 39 - 45
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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