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Localized skin changes at the site of immunization with highly irradiated cercariae of Schistosoma mansoni are associated with enhanced resistance to a challenge infection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Kathleen L. Miller  and
S. R. Smithers
Kathleen L. Miller
Affiliation:
Division of Parasitology, National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA
S. R. Smithers
Affiliation:
Division of Parasitology, National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA
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Summary

The level of immunity to a percutaneous cercarial challenge with Schistosoma mansoni was assayed 4–6 weeks after immunization of mice with highly irradiated (20 krad.) cercariae or schistosomula. When immunization and challenge occurred through the same skin site, resistance, particularly that which occurred in the skin, was greater than that observed when immunization and challenge occurred in different sites. The enhanced resistance is believed to be due to localized changes in the skin; 4 weeks after exposure to irradiated cercariae, abdominal skin is characterized by a thickened epidermis, changes in the ground substance and a cellular infiltration of the dermis. A convenient mouse model is described in which one or both ear pinnae are exposed to irradiated cercariae and a percutaneous challenge is given via the abdomen, thus eliminating the effects of local skin changes. In this model, the majority of the challenge infection which succumbs to the immune response appears to be killed in the skin.

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Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 85 , Issue 2 , October 1982 , pp. 305 - 314
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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