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Science 23 August 1968:
Vol. 161. no. 3843, pp. 802 - 804
DOI: 10.1126/science.161.3843.802
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Interferon Inducers Protect Mice against Plasmodium berghei Malaria

René I. Jahiel 1, Jan Vilcek 1, Ruth Nussenzweig 1, and Jerome Vanderberg 1

1 Departments of Preventive Medicine and Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York 10016

Injection of mice with two interferon inducers, Newcastle disease virus or statolon, 20 hours after inoculation with Plasmodium berghei sporozoites, prevented or delayed the development of detectable malarial parasitemia and death.


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