Sn. Arseculeratne et al., Failure to infect congenitally immunodeficient SCID and NUDE mice with Rhinosporidium seeberi, MED MYCOL, 38(5), 2000, pp. 393-395
Congenitally T and B cell-deficient SCID mice and T cell-deficient NUDE mic
e, with BALB/c mice as immunologically normal controls, were inoculated wit
h Rhinosporidium seeberi. At 3 and 16 weeks after inoculation, no evidence
of rhinosporidiosis was detected. The reasons for the failure to establish
rhinosporidiosis in immunodeficient or normal mice remain obscure.