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The courses of visceral infection following intravenous injection of Leishmania donovani amastigotes, or lesion growth following subcutaneous injection of L. major promastigotes, were examined in B10.129(IOM) (H-2 b, H-11 b) mice and compared with disease profiles observed in congenic C57BL/10ScSn(=B10) (H-2 b, H-11 a) and B10.D2/n (H-2 d, H-11 a) mice, and in BALB/mice. Possession of alternative alleles at H-11 and closely linked loci transformed the normal curing/healing phenotype of B 10 mice into a characteristically different noncuring/nonhealing phenotype affecting both visceral and subcutaneous infections in B10.129(10M) mice. In reciprocal radiation bone marrow chimeras made between the congenic B10 and B10.129(10M) strains, both cure and noncure phenotypes were transferable with the donor hematopoietic system. Although it was possible to demonstrate transfer of suppression with T-enriched spleen cells from day 61 L. donovani-infected B10.129(10M) donor mice into 550 rad syngeneic recipients, the pretreatment of mice with sublethal irradiation did not, as in the earlier studies of Scl-controlled L. major nonhealing or H-2-controlled L. donovani noncure phenotypes, have a clear or consistent prophylactic effect. Together with the progressive disease profile observed even for L. donovani at low parasite doses this suggests that, despite their ability to develop initial delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions to parasite antigen early in L. major infection, B10.129(10M) mice possess some inherent defect in ability to mount a cell-mediated response effective at the level of macrophage antileishmanial activity in vivo even when suppressor T cells are not generated. Further elucidation of this characteristically different noncuring/nonhealing phenotype may provide important insight into common events involved in the development of the cell-mediated immune response to both visceral and subcutaneous forms of leishmaniasis.
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Blackwell, J.M., Hale, C., Roberts, M.B. et al. An H-11-linked gene has a parallel effect on Leishmania major and L. donovani infections in mice. Immunogenetics 21, 385–395 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00430803
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