[Listeria monocytogenes action on viral T8 epithelioma growth]

Effects of Listeria monocytogenes on normal and tumor-bearing rats were evaluated. Inhibition of T8 tumor and its metastases in tumor-bearing rats treated with L. monocytogenes was observed. Macrophage phagocyte functions, depressed in tumor bearing rats, was restored by L., monocytogenes. In particular, a dissociation between different macrophages functions in tumor-bearing rats was observed.