Accession Number:
AD0768940
Title:
Immunogenitaet Mycobakterieller Zellwaende Gegen Experimentelle Aerogene Tuberkuloseinfektion der Maus (Immunogenicity of Mycobacterial Cell Walls against Experimental Airborne Tuberculosis),
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Corporate Author:
ROBERT KOCH-INSTITUT BERLIN (WEST GERMANY)
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Report Date:
1969-01-01
Pagination or Media Count:
23.0
Abstract:
As in cade of other bacteria so far tested the immunogenic factors of Mycobacteria also seem to be located in or upon the cell wall. The immunogenic potency of mycobacterial cell wall-vaccines has been examined in parallel with viable BCG-vaccine in mice against airborne infection with virulent tubercle bacilli. Mycobacterial cell walls afford protection only when administered by the intravenous route as an oil-in water-emulsion. So far, only mineral oils and the synthetic hydrocarbon 7-hexyloctadecane were found suitable to function as carriers for the cell wall material. In this test system the degree of immunity obtained was in parallel with a considerable proliferation of macrophages and lymphocytes in lungs and spleens of the mice. Modified author abstract
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Subject Categories:
- Microbiology