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Immunization of rats against Schistosoma mansoni using irradiated cercariae, lung schistosomula and liver-stage worms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

M. J. Ford ,
Q. D. Bickle  and
M. G. Taylor
M. J. Ford
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Helminthology, Winches Farm Field Station, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, St Albans, Herts AL4 0XQ
Q. D. Bickle
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Helminthology, Winches Farm Field Station, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, St Albans, Herts AL4 0XQ
M. G. Taylor
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Helminthology, Winches Farm Field Station, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, St Albans, Herts AL4 0XQ
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Summary

In PVG rats a single immunizing infection with Schistosoma mansoni cercariae exposed to 0, 5, 10 or 20 krad. gamma radiation failed to induce more than minimal resistance (17–29%) to challenge 4 weeks later, whereas 4 immunizations with 20 krad.-irradiated cercariae, over several months, induced substantial resistance (75%). In contrast, significant protection was induced in Fischer rats by a single immunization with unirradiated cercariae or cercariae irradiated with up to 80 krad. Comparable resistance was induced by unirradiated and by 2, 5 and 20 krad.-irradiated cercariae (67–74%) and lower levels by 10, 40 and 80 krad.-irradiated infections (57, 48 and 33%, respectively). Although the resistance induced by a single dose of 1000 20 krad.-irradiated cercariae could be boosted by a second (88%), further immunizations failed to enhance this resistance. Also, increasing the number of immunizing cercariae in single or multiple vaccinations from 1000 to 3000 failed to increase the resistance. While the resistance induced by 20 krad.-irradiated cercariae persisted undiminished for at least 25 weeks (67%), the resistance induced by normal cercariae declined to insignificant levels by 25 weeks (21%). Comparison of the migration and survival of unirradiated and of 20 and 40 krad.-irradiated cercariae revealed dramatic differences in their fate: parasites exposed to 40 krad. remained in the skin, while the majority of 20 krad.-irradiated parasites died in the lungs after a sojourn of at least 14 days. Thus, although skin schistosomula alone could induce significant protection, optimal resistance was induced only by parasites which migrated to the lungs or beyond. The immunizing potential of these older parasites was investigated by exposing rats to lung-and liver-stage larvae injected into the tail and mesenteric veins, respectively. Irradiated 4-day lung schistosomula induced comparable resistance (79%) to that induced by a complete unattenuated cercarial infection (78%), whereas less resistance was induced by irradiated and unirradiated 11-day-old liver worms (30 and 27%) and by 25-day-old pre-adult worms (48%).

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Parasitology , Volume 89 , Issue 2 , October 1984 , pp. 327 - 344
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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