Immunological Sequelae of Trichinella spiralis Infection in Mice II. Potentiation of Cell-Mediated Response to BCG After Infection with Trichinella spiralis

Trichinella spiralis: immunologic response to infection in mice.

CRANDALL, RICHARD B., AND CRANDALL, CATHERIXE 4. 1972. Trichinella spiralis: Immunologic response to infection in mice. Experimen~tnl Purasitology 31, 378-398. Serum IgG1, IgG2. IgM, and IgA levels were measured by radial immunodiffusion in C57B1 mice after infection with 200 Trichinella larvae. IgG, concentrations increased 2to 5-fold during t,he second week of infection; IgA and IgGz levels s...

Immunity to Trichinella spiralis infection in vitamin A-deficient mice

Vitamin A-deficient (A-) mice make strikingly poor IgG responses when they are immunized with purified protein antigens. Previously, we showed that A- T cells overproduce interferon gamma (IFN-gamma), which then could inhibit interleukin 4 (IL-4)-stimulated B cell IgG responses. To determine if the altered IFN-gamma regulation pattern and its immunological consequences would extend to a natural...

Experimental and immunological comparison of Trichinella spiralis and Trichinella nativa

Decreased susceptibility to Listeria monocytogenes in mice after infection with Trichinella spiralis.

Mice challenged intravenously with Listeria monocytogenes at 7 or 21 days after Trichinella spiralis infection demonstrated a higher mean lethal dose and longer survival time than normal mice. This effect of helminthic infection was abrogated after 49 days.

The first human case of Trichinella spiralis infection in Korea.

Three cases of human infection by Trichinella spiralis were first confirmed by detecting encysted larvae in the biopsied muscle in December 1997, in Korea. The patients were one 35- and two 39-year-old males residing in Kochang-gun, Kyongsangnam-do. They had a common past history of eating raw liver, spleen, blood and muscle of a badger, Meles meles melanogenys, and complained of high fever, fa...