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. 1978 Nov;35(5):771–778.

Studies on the host-parasite relationship in Schistosoma mansoni-infected mice: the immunological dependence of parasite egg excretion.

M Doenhoff, R Musallam, J Bain, A McGregor
PMCID: PMC1457532  PMID: 309856

Abstract

CBA mice deprived of their T cells by means of thymectomy and anti-thymocyte serum and subsequently infected with Schistosoma mansoni were found to have substantially fewer parasite eggs in their faeces than similarly infected immunologically-intact control animals. The number of parasite eggs deposited in the tissues of T-cell deprived mice was by comparison only marginally lower than in control mice. Administration of serum obtained from normal mice with chronic S. mansoni infections partially restored the egg excretion rate in infected deprived mice, and also resulted in an increased number of eggs being deposited in the liver and intestine of these animals.

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