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. 1988 Mar;56(3):649–653. doi: 10.1128/iai.56.3.649-653.1988

Lacteal immunity to enteric cryptosporidiosis in mice: immune dams do not protect their suckling pups.

H W Moon 1, D B Woodmansee 1, J A Harp 1, S Abel 1, B L Ungar 1
PMCID: PMC259340  PMID: 3343052

Abstract

The susceptibilities of passively immunized principal and nonimmunized control suckling mice to orogastric challenge with Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts were compared. Principals were suckled by dams that had recovered from C. parvum infection. Controls were suckled by dams reared free of C. parvum infection. Principals and controls were equally susceptible to challenge. Principals were susceptible even when their dams were hyperimmunized by oral and parenteral booster inoculations with C. parvum oocysts. Immune dams produced serum antibody against C. parvum, while nonimmune dams did not. Anti-cryptosporidia immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgA were demonstrated in whey extracted from the stomachs of principals that had suckled immune dams but not in whey extracted from the stomachs of controls. It was concluded that passive lacteal immunity is not an efficient means of protection against cryptosporidiosis in mice. As in other coccidian infections, protective immunity against cryptosporidiosis may depend more on immune cells than on antibody.

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