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Effect of presensitization of Nocardia asteroides with specific antibody on the viability of the organism

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Nocardia asteroides from various growth phases was treated in vitro with normal rabbit sera, immune rabbit sera containing nocardial polyclonal antibodies and a monoclonal antibody. At intervals, samples were grown in broth or on blood agar plates to determine their viability. Log and stationary phase cells were injected intra-peritoneally into female BALB/c mice and their survival rates in the liver and spleen were determined. Presensitization with antibodies reduced the viability of the log phase cells by 48% and that of the late stationary phase by 4%. The antibody-treated log phase organisms were less viable on the blood agar medium and in the spleen and liver than the control organisms. This indicates that pretreatment with antibody has a lethal effect on N. asteroides and affects its survival in vivo.

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Osoagbaka, O.U. Effect of presensitization of Nocardia asteroides with specific antibody on the viability of the organism. World Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology 12, 601–606 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00327722

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