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Wanpen Chaicumpa, Derrick Rowley, Experimental Cholera in Infant Mice: Protective Effects of Antibody, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 125, Issue 5, May 1972, Pages 480–485, https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/125.5.480
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Abstract
The protective role of antibody in immunity to experimental infection of five-to-six-day-old infant mice with Vibrio cholerae has been confirmed. Antibody does not protect two- to three-day-old mice, and mice six- to eight-weeks of age are no longer susceptible to the infection. The results of our studies demonstrate that antibody operates by a direct antibacterial mechanism acting in the intestine.
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