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Heterologous immunity between piroplasms and malaria parasites: the simultaneous elimination of Plasmodium vinckei and Babesia microti from the blood of doubly infected mice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

F. E. G. Cox
F. E. G. Cox
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of London, King's College, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
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Summary

Mice which have recovered from infections with the avirulent piroplasm Babesia microti are also resistant to challenge with the virulent malaria parasite Plasmodium vinckei. In mice infected with P. vinckei before the peak of the B. microti infection the numbers of malaria parasites in the blood increase until that peak and are then eliminated at the same time as the piroplasms. In mice infected with P. vinckei at or after the peak there is no apparent multiplication and the malaria parasites begin to disappear from the blood immediately. The malaria parasites in doubly infected mice show signs of degeneration similar to those seen in mice pre-treated with Corynebacterium parvum and it is suggested that a common mechanism exists in homologous and heterologous immunity and in immunity following pre-treatment with C. parvum or BCG.

Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 76 , Issue 1 , February 1978 , pp. 55 - 60
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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