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Observations on the Immunity Response in Experimental Ascariasis in Rabbits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2009

W. K. Blackie
Affiliation:
From the Helminthology Department of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Extract

1. A preliminary account is given of certain serological investigations carried out on a rabbit fed with the embryonated eggs of Ascaris megalocephala.

2. By means of the complement-fixation test it has been shown that a definite immunity response occurs in the first five weeks of the infection.

Type
Research Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1931

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