An experimental trial of vaccination hamsters against Leishmania donovani using attenuated subcultures

الملخص EN

This experiment is a trail to use an attenuated Leishmania donovani promatigote as a mean for protection the hamsters against visceral leishmniasis.

By subculturing the promastigotes from 1-18 times in NNN media, it was found that subcultures 16, 17, 18 were effective in protecting the hamsters against challenge dose of the parasites.