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Nematode infections are a ubiquitous feature of vertebrate life. In nature, such nematode infections are acquired by continued exposure to infective stages over a prolonged period of time. By contrast, experimental laboratory infections are typically induced by the administration of a single (and often large) dose of infective stages. Previous work has shown that the size of an infection dose can have significant effects on anti-nematode immune responses. Here we investigated the effect of different infection regimes of  Strongyloides ratti , comparing single and repeated dose infections, on the host immune response that was elicited. We considered and compared infections of the same size, but administered in different ways. We considered infection size in two ways: the maximum dose of worms administered and the cumulative worm exposure time. We found that both infection regimes resulted in Th2-type immune response, characterised by IL4 and IL13 produced by  S. ratti  stimulated mesenteric lymph node cells, anti- S. ratti  IgG 1  and intestinal rat mast cell protease II (RMCPII) production. We observed some small quantitative immunological differences between different infection regimes, in which the concentration of IL4, IL13, anti- S. ratti  IgG 1  and IgG 2a  and RMCPII were affected. However, these differences were quantitatively relatively modest compared with the temporal dynamics of the anti- S. ratti  immune response as a whole.

Immunological Responses Elicited by Different Infection Regimes with Strongyloides ratti