Vaccination of Lewis rats with temperature-sensitive mutants of Mycoplasma pulmonis: adoptive transfer of immunity by spleen cells but not by sera.

doi:10.1128/iai.59.1.346-350.1991

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Vaccination of Lewis rats with temperature-sensitive mutants of Mycoplasma pulmonis: adoptive transfer of immunity by spleen cells but not by sera.

Infection and immunity - 1 Jan 1991

Lai W C, Bennett M, Lu Y S, Pakes S P

Abstract excerpt

Temperature-sensitive mutant vaccines protect rats against Mycoplasma pulmonis infection. The role of the humoral or cellular immune response in resistance to mycoplasma infection was investigated by adoptive-transfer experiments. Spleen cells from Lewis rats vaccinated but not challenged with wi...

Topics

Animals
Female
Immunization, Passive
Immunotherapy, Adoptive
Lung
Male
Mutation
Mycoplasma
Mycoplasma Infections
Rats
Rats, Inbred Lew
Spleen
T-Lymphocytes
Temperature
Vaccination

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