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Strain variation in Entamoeba histolytica

III. The influence of the bacterial flora on virulence to rats

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

R. A. Neal
R. A. Neal
Affiliation:
The Wellcome Laboratories of Tropical Medicine, London
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1. The total bacterial floras from invasive strains of Entamoeba histolytica, when added to non-invasive strains, do not increase the invasiveness of the latter.

2. The bacterial flora of non-invasive strains do not inhibit the invasiveness of virulent strains.

3. Bacteria from a virulent substrain (revived by serial liver passage) do not increase the invasiveness of the attenuated parent strain.

4. It is concluded that the virulence of a strain of E. histolytica is primarily dependent upon the invasiveness of the amoeba itself.

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Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 46 , Issue 1-2 , May 1956 , pp. 183 - 191
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1956

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