title: Cross-resistance between Strongyloides venezuelensis and S. ratti in mice.
abstract: Cross-resistance between Strongyloides venezuelensis and S. ratti was tested in mice. The mice were immunized with S. ratti and challenged with infective filariform larvae or larvae recovered from the lungs of mice, of a heterologous species, S. venezuelensis. In this system, cross-resistance was expressed to the intestinal stage but not to the migrating stage of the parasite. Anti-interleukin (IL)-5 monoclonal antibody (mAb) treatment showed that peripheral blood eosinophilia after infection with both species of the genus Strongyloides was dependent on IL-5. Cross-resistance expressed to the intestinal stages was inhibited partially by injection of anti-IL-5 mAb.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oncology, Kumamoto University Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Korenaga
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hitoshi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takatsu
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Tada
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D004802:Eosinophilia / Q000097:blood; D015848:Interleukin-5 / Q000276:immunology; D007422:Intestines / Q000469:parasitology; D007814:Larva; D008168:Lung / Q000469:parasitology; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D010270:Parasite Egg Count; D013321:Strongyloides / Q000276:immunology*; D017170:Strongyloides ratti / Q000276:immunology*; D013322:Strongyloidiasis / Q000276:immunology* / Q000469:parasitology / Q000517:prevention & control
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D015848:Interleukin-5