Schistosoma mansoni: importance of skin and pulmonary phases to concomitant immunity in albino mice

Fourteen-day-old schistosomula obtained from mice previously infected were surgically transferred to the portal vein of receptor mice. Another group of mice was infected with cercariae by transcutaneous route. After 90 days, those groups were challenged with 100 cercariae, transcutaneously, as well...

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Main Authors: Miriam O. Rocha, Paulo Marcos Z. Coelho, Rômulo T. Mello
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 1985-04-01
Series:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46651985000200005&lng=en&tlng=en