MICROBIC VIRULENCE AND HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY IN PARATYPHOID-ENTERITIDIS INFECTION OF WHITE MICE : IV. THE EFFECT OF SELECTIVE BREEDING ON HOST RESISTANCE.
If mice surviving a lethal dose of mouse typhoid bacilli are inbred consecutively for a number of generations, the resulting offspring become progressively more resistant to mouse typhoid infection and to mercury bichloride intoxication than similar control mice not so selected.
Laboratories of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
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