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The immunological properties of listerial complex Ei
1Institute of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Charles University School of Medicine, Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Acta Microbiologica Hungarica
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Factor Ei, besides exerting toxic reactions, is amphipathic, antigenic, chemotaxinogenic, causes blastic transformation, adjuvant effect, hypersensitivity (MIF, skin test), activates the RES (splenomegaly), increases the macrophage production, prevents listerial infection in mice, mycobacterial infection in guinea pigs and enhances the effect of BCG experimental tuberculosis and neoplasia in mice (Sa 180).