Mycoplasma-Virus Interrelationships in Mouse Tracheal Organ Cultures

AUTOR(ES)

Westerberg, Stephen C.

RESUMO

The effects produced by single and mixed infections with Mycoplasma pulmonis and influenza A/PR-8 virus were studied in mouse tracheal organ cultures. M. pulmonis multiplied in the tracheal organ cultures, producing inhibition of ciliary activity and histologic tissue damage. The organism grew in close association with the cell membranes but did not appear to attach directly to the membranes or the cilia. Influenza A virus also replicated in tracheal organ cultures, producing ciliary inhibition and more extensive cytopathologic changes. Virus particles were seen by electron microscopy to attach to and cause clumping of the cilia. Simultaneous infection of the organ cultures with mycoplasma and virus resulted in more rapid inactivation of ciliary activity and greater tissue damage than occurred when the cultures were infected with only mycoplasma or virus. Presence of the virus appeared to have no effect on the growth of the mycoplasma; however, the mycoplasma partially interfered with virus replication.

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