Effect of selenium and dimethyl dioctadecyl ammonium bromide on the vaccine-induced immunity of Swiss-Webster mice against malaria (Plasmodium berghei).

Infection and Immunity
R S Desowitz, J W Barnwell

Abstract

The results of the study described in this paper demonstrate that selenium, administered in drinking water, potentiates the protective effect of a killed Plasmodium berghei vaccine for Swiss-Webster mice. We also report that a vaccine consisting of P. berghei antigen combined with the adjuvant dimethyl dioctadecyl ammonium bromide conferred a significantly high level of protective immunity. An additive effect was shown in that the greatest degree of protection was afforded to the group of mice maintained on selenium and vaccinated with antigen-dimethyl dioctadecyl ammonium bromide. Almost all of the animals treated in this manner survived the challenging infection, the course of which was typically of a transitory parasitemia not exceeding 10% at the peak.

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