Homologous and Heterologous Borrelia burgdorferi Challenge of Infection-Derived Immune Rabbits Using Host-Adapted Organisms

AUTOR(ES)

Shang, Ellen S.

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

We have recently found that strain B31 infection-immune rabbits are completely protected against homologous challenge with large numbers (>106) of host-adapted Borrelia burgdorferi (HAB) (E. S. Shang, C. I. Champion, X. Wu, J. T. Skare, D. B. Blanco, J. N. Miller, and M. A. Lovett, Infect. Immun. 68:4189–4199, 2000). In this study, we have extended these findings to determine whether B31 strain infection-immune rabbits are also protected against heterologous HAB challenge. Infection-immune rabbits challenged with large numbers (>106) of homologous HAB strain B31 were completely protected from erythema migrans (EM) and skin and disseminated infection. In contrast, infection-immune rabbits challenged with heterologous HAB strains N40 and Sh-2-82 were completely susceptible to EM and skin and disseminated infection; challenge with strain 297 also resulted in EM and infection of the skin and viscera, but clearance of infection occurred 3 weeks postchallenge. These findings confirm that immunity elicited in rabbits by B31 strain infection confers complete protection against large-dose homologous HAB challenge but not against a heterologous strain.

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