Immunization to Schistosoma mansoni in mice inoculated with radiated cercariae.
Preliminary experiments indicate that mice inoculated with cercariae of Schistosoma mansoni that have been exposed to cobalt-60 radiation in the range of 2500 to 3000 rep develop immunity to reinfection with nonradiated cercariae.
D000818:Animals; D058487:Cercaria; D007109:Immunity; D007114:Immunization; D051379:Mice; D011830:Radiation Effects; D012550:Schistosoma mansoni; D012552:Schistosomiasis / Q000276:immunology*; D014611:Vaccination
RADIATION EFFECTS/experimental; SCHISTOSOMIASIS/immunology