Subcutaneous immunization of guinea pigs with Dictyocaulus viviparus larvae attenuated by x-ray irradiation

Tománek, J.

Folia Parasitologica 18(2): 183-185

1971


ISSN/ISBN: 0015-5683
PMID: 4270898
Document Number: 37308
Groups of 5 guineapigs were subcutaneously immunized with 2 doses (21 days apart) of 5, 000 infective Dictyocaulus viviparus larvae X-irradiated by exposure to 20, 30, 40 or 50 kr. 12 days after the second inoculation they were challenged orally with 5, 000 larvae and protective immunity assessed on the basis of larval recovery from the lungs 7 days later.

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