Adoptive transfer of vaccine-induced resistance to Leishmania donovani.

BALB/c mice were immunized with three subcutaneous injections combining killed parasites and glucan, or were untreated. Spleen cells were transferred to syngeneic recipients. Mice which received 5 X 10(8) spleen cells from vaccinated donors demonstrated significant protection against Leishmania donovani challenge as compared to untreated mice receiving immune sera, or mice which received untreated spleen cells.