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The Effect Of Varying Protein Intake On Trichinella Spiralis Infection In Mice, Clare K. Kwan
The Effect Of Varying Protein Intake On Trichinella Spiralis Infection In Mice, Clare K. Kwan
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Three hundred Swiss Webster albino mice three weeks of age were placed on low (8%), medium (24%), high (48%) protein levels and a commercial laboratory animal feed, Purina Chow for various lengths of time: (1) simultaneously with infection, and four weeks thereafter, (2) three weeks before infection and throughout the four-week infection period, and (3) six weeks prior to infection and during the infection period. The protein source was casein. Sixty of the 300 mice used served as noninfected controls, and the other 240 were each infected with 400 washed, suspended Trichinella spiralis larvae obtained from a rat by the …