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. 1924 May 31;39(6):879–886. doi: 10.1084/jem.39.6.879

MICROBIC VIRULENCE AND HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY IN PARATYPHOID-ENTERITIDIS INFECTION OF WHITE MICE

IV. THE EFFECT OF SELECTIVE BREEDING ON HOST RESISTANCE.

Leslie T Webster 1
PMCID: PMC2128544  PMID: 19868890

Abstract

If mice surviving a lethal dose of mouse typhoid bacilli are inbred consecutively for a number of generations, the resulting offspring become progressively more resistant to mouse typhoid infection and to mercury bichloride intoxication than similar control mice not so selected.

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