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Giardia lamblia infections in adult mice
L G Byrd1, J T Conrad, T E Nash
1Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
Infection and Immunity
|August 1, 1994
Abstract:
An adult mouse-Giardia lamblia model was developed and used to study host-parasite interactions, including antigenic variation. The H7/1 clone of isolate GS infected mice consistently and produced infections in 14 mouse strains tested. Infection patterns were mouse strain and Giardia isolate dependent. Antigenic variation occurred in immunocompetent mice but not in mice with severe combined immunodeficiency.