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. 1945 Apr 1;81(4):359–384. doi: 10.1084/jem.81.4.359

NUTRITION OF THE HOST AND NATURAL RESISTANCE TO INFECTION

I. THE EFFECT OF DIET ON THE RESPONSE OF SEVERAL GENOTYPES OF MUS MUSCULUS TO SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS INFECTION

Howard A Schneider 1, Leslie T Webster 1
PMCID: PMC2135502  PMID: 19871463

Abstract

1. A diet of whole wheat and whole dried milk has been shown to promote a higher survival rate, among W-Swiss mice subjected to S. enteritidis infection, than that promoted by a "synthetic" diet. 2. The demonstration of this ability of diet to condition natural resistance has been found to depend upon the genetic constitution of the mice employed. The demonstration has been possible in W-Swiss mice, a strain only moderately inbred and retaining a degree of genetic variability. The demonstration has not been possible in three highly inbred strains of mice selected so that they differed predictably from one another in natural resistance. 3. The nutritional factors involved are present in whole wheat and are absent or negligible in dried whole milk. Their nature has not yet been determined.

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