Vibrio Vulnificus Damages Macrophages During the Early Phase of Infection.
From: Department of Microbiology, Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 4-20-1 Nasahara, Takatsuki, Osaka 569-1094, Japan.
Infection and immunity
- Publish Date: Sep 2007
- ISSN: 0019-9567
- Volume: 75
- Issue: 9
- Pages: 4592-6
- Medium: Print
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): Tsuchiya Takahiro, Mitsuo Eriko, Hayashi Nahoko, et al. Vibrio Vulnificus Damages Macrophages During the Early Phase of Infection.. Infect. Immun. Sep 2007;75:4592-6
Abstract
Vibrio vulnificus is an estuarine bacterium that can cause primary septicemia as well as serious wound infections. Generally, clinical isolates have a high lethal effect compared with environmental isolates. However, little is known about the mechanisms by which V. vulnificus causes disease. In this study, we compared the pathogenicity of a clinical isolate, strain M2799, with that of an environmental isolate, strain JCM3731. The clinical isolate showed 100 times higher lethality in mice than the environmental isolate. In strain M2799-inoculated mice, the number of macrophages decreased significantly, whereas there was no appreciable change in the number of macrophages in strain JCM3731-inoculated mice. The clinical isolate showed high cytotoxic activity, especially to macrophages, compared with the environmental isolate in vitro. The growth of the clinical isolate was almost completely inhibited in the presence of macrophages. Moreover, the survival rate of the clinical isolate-inoculated mice increased by recruitment of macrophages. These results indicate that V. vulnificus infection progresses by damage to macrophages during the early phase of infection.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Animals, Disease Models, Animal, Female, Macrophages, Mice, Mice, Inbred BALB C, Vibrio Infections, Vibrio vulnificus
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