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The experimental results confirm previous reports that X-irradiation activates latent bartonellosis in rats to produce a fulminating infection. It was also found that whole blood, red blood cells or plasma from infected irradiated rats were equally lethal when injected into Bartonella muris-free rats. The lethality was much less when the recipient rats had not been splenectomized.
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