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Experiments on CBA mice showed that adult animals injected intravenously with BCG mycobacteria in a dose of 2 mg 12 months after thymectomy died within 2.5 months from disseminated BCG infection against the background of depression of hypersensitivity of delayed type. Mice undergoing a mock operation developed the ordinary BCG vaccination process.
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Moroz, A.M., Galkin, Y.M., Litvinov, V.I. et al. Lethal BCG infection in thymectomized mice. Bull Exp Biol Med 82, 1828–1829 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00785709
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