Active immunity to Pneumocystis carinii reinfection in T-cell-depleted mice.
AUTOR(ES)
Harmsen, A G
RESUMO
Immunocompetent C.B-17 mice were immunized against Pneumocystis carinii by several intratracheal inoculations with infective P. carinii. These mice and another group of C.B-17 mice naive to P. carinii were then depleted of CD4+ cells by treatment with both anti-CD4 and anti-Thy1 monoclonal antibodies. Both groups of mice were then challenged with an infective inoculum containing 10(7) P. carinii organisms by intratracheal instillation. The mean log10 counts of P. carinii nuclei in the lungs of the nonimmune mice were 4.98, 5.89, and 6.77 when they were killed at 4, 10, and 19 days, respectively, after challenge. The P. carinii counts in the lungs of the immune mice were significantly lower at each time point and below detectable levels at 10 and 19 days. Analysis of P. carinii DNA by PCR revealed no detectable P. carinii in the lungs of the immunized mice at either 10 or 19 days, whereas all of the nonimmunized mice contained P. carinii DNA at all time points. The sera of immune but not nonimmune mice contained P. carinii-specific immunoglobulin G. These results indicate that immunization of an immunocompetent host against P. carinii can protect against P. carinii pneumonia even after the host is depleted of CD4+ cells. In addition, the results are consistent with the possibility that antibodies were responsible for the observed protection against P. carinii.
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