Colonization of the rabbit small intestine by clinical and environmental isolates of non-O1 Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio mimicus.
AUTOR(ES)
Spira, W M
RESUMO
We examined the capability of 12 isolates of non-cholera toxin-producing O1 and non-O1 Vibrio cholerae to colonize the small intestine of adult rabbits and cause diarrhea. Using the removable intestinal tie-adult rabbit diarrhea model, we found that eight environmental isolates that showed no or marginal biological activity in other diarrhea models (rabbit ileal loop, infant rabbit, and suckling mouse) appeared to be incapable of attaching to and colonizing, even transiently, the small intestinal mucosa of animals with normal clearance mechanisms. In contrast, three clinical isolates attached, proliferated rapidly, and colonized mucosal surfaces of the entire small intestine within 8 h of challenge. This led to diarrhea with strikingly high rates of mortality compared with that of rabbits given similar challenges doses with strains of O1 V. cholerae that produce cholera toxin and Vibrio mimicus, which produces a toxin similar to cholera toxin. We have further demonstrated that multiple exposures to enteric infection by these strains elicited local and serum antibodies that reacted strongly with cell surface antigens of the homologous strain and showed a high degree of cross-reactivity against the cell surface antigens of the two heterologous strains. The enteric infections appeared to engender protection against subsequent infection as well, as evidenced by reduced incidence of diarrhea and duration of fecal shedding of the challenge organism upon subsequent challenges.
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