Resistance to tick-borne Francisella tularensis by tick-sensitized rabbits: allergic klendusity
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Resistance to tick-borne Francisella tularensis by tick-sensitized rabbits: allergic klendusity
Am J Trop Med Hyg.
1979 Sep.
Abstract
Mammals become hypersensitive to ticks that feed upon them. That hypersensitivity was thought responsible for an observation that a large number of Francisella tularensis-infected Dermacentor variabilis failed to infect a rabbit previously exposed to ticks of that species. In a series of tests of that hypothesis, rabbits sensitized to ticks were often significantly more resistant than control animals to tick-borne tularemia. The conditions that determine the klendusity are thought to be variable and complex but the phenomenon must be of importance in the epidemiology of some arthropod-borne agents.
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