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. 1976 Feb;151(2):257-9.
doi: 10.3181/00379727-151-39186.

Nonsterilizing immunity in avian malaria: an antibody-independent phenomenon

R G Rank, W P Weidanz, A Bondi

Nonsterilizing immunity in avian malaria: an antibody-independent phenomenon

R G Rank et al. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med. 1976 Feb.

Abstract

Agammaglobulinemic chickens died with fulminating parasitemias following infection with P. gallinaceum. When rescued from otherwise fatal infection by means of chloroquine therapy, B-cell deficient chickens resisted challenge infection with the same parasite. The data suggest that nonsterilizing immunity to malaria in chickens is B-cell independent.

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