Adoptively transferred resistance to Schistosoma mansoni in the snail intermediate host Biomphalaria glabrata was measured as a function of miracidial challenge dose. Schistosome-susceptible snails implanted with the amebocyte-producing organ (APO) from resistant donors showed 29 and 39% prevalences of infection after challenge with 5 and 10 miracidia, respectively, but 68–83% prevalences when exposed to 25–200 miracidia. Prevalences in control (untampered) susceptible snails ranged from 97 to 100% at the different miracidial doses. Higher infection prevalences at elevated doses suggest that a range of transferred resistance occurs and possibly that low levels of APO-derived plasma factors or hemocytes in some recipients can be overwhelmed by larger numbers of parasites.
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1 April 2001
Effect of Miracidial Dose on Adoptively Transferred Resistance to Schistosoma mansoni in the Snail Intermediate Host, Biomphalaria glabrata
René E. Vasquez,
John T. Sullivan
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