SPECIFIC AND NON-SPECIFIC IMMUNITY IN EXPERIMENTAL CRYPTOCOCCOSIS IN MICE

The course of lethal cryptococcosis in mice was modified by immunization with the same strain or different strains of Cryptococcus neoformans. Protection was associated with a definite decrease in tissue fungus multiplication over the initial 7 days of infection. Such immunity was species-specific...

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Main Author: Louria, Donald B.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: The Rockefeller University Press 1960
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2137279/