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Latent Haemobartonella muris infection: its transmission and decline in an inbred, ectoparasite-free strain of Wistar rat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Roberta Bartlett
Affiliation:
Department of Bacteriology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TJ
Phyllis Pease
Affiliation:
Department of Bacteriology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TJ

Extract

Ectoparasite-free, SPF Italian Wistar rats were consistently found to carry a latent infection with Haemobartonella muris, activable by splen ectomy. In an inbred line this diminished and eventually ceased in six generations. Experimental infection from wild rats demonstrated that this was not apparently due to immunity.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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