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. 1974 Jun;17(2):311–318.

Studies on delayed hypersensitivity to hepatitis b antigen in chimpanzees

A B Ibrahim, G N Vyas, A M Prince
PMCID: PMC1554027  PMID: 4466604

Abstract

Twenty-eight chimpanzees were divided into six groups according to their history of previous immunization or exposure to hepatitis B antigen (HBAg) and studied for delayed hypersensitivity (DH) to HBAg. Purified HBAg derived from a normal human carrier was used for in vivo skin testing and in vitro leucocyte migration inhibition tests. Of seventeen chimpanzees immunized with HBAg in Freund's complete adjuvant (FCA), nine exhibited positive DH reactions to HBAg with good correlation between the in vivo and in vitro responses. Of the seventeen chimpanzees, fourteen also exhibited positive DH reactions to purified protein derivative of tuberculin (PPD) with marked erythema and induration; the other three exhibited only erythema with no induration. None of the seventeen animals exhibited any immediate reactivity to either HBAg or PPD. Intradermal injection of HBAg-negative human serum failed to elicit DH reactions in four animals who showed positive skin test with purified HBAg; the DH response was thus probably HBAg-specific. Nineteen chimpanzees, including six unimmunized animals, three chronic carriers of HBAg and two which had been injected with HBAg without FCA, failed to show DH response to HBAg. Thus, DH to HBAg was observed only in animals hyperimmunized with HBAg in FCA.

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