Cellular Immune Responses to Amoebic Liver Abcess in the Guinea-pig

Overview

Journal Clin Exp Immunol

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Allergy & Immunology

Date 1977 Jul 1

PMID 891028

Citations 3

Authors

R S BRAY

W G Harris

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Abstract

Guinea-pigs infected in the liver with the Biswas strain of Entamoeba histolytica showed no dermal hypersensitivity but showed positive lymphocyte transformation and macrophage-migration inhibition. The time sequence showed an activated response at 4 days after infection, a full response at 8 days when the liver abscesses were resolving and a waning response at 12 days when the abscesses had healed.

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