New fimbrial antigen F165 from Escherichia coli serogroup O115 strains isolated from piglets with diarrhea.
AUTOR(ES)
Fairbrother, J M
RESUMO
Sixteen strains of Escherichia coli serogroup O115 isolated from piglets with diarrhea were examined for mannose-sensitive or mannose-resistant hemagglutination (MSHA or MRHA, respectively) for the presence of fimbriae by electron microscopy and for enterotoxigenicity by the ligated gut loop technique in 10-day-old piglets. Four strains demonstrated MRHA of sheep, goat, pig, dog, cat, chicken, and human erythrocytes but no MRHA of calf, horse, guinea pig, and rabbit erythrocytes. They were divided into pattern I (MSHA negative) and pattern II (MSHA positive). The remaining 12 strains were classified as pattern III (MRHA negative, MSHA positive) and pattern IV (hemagglutination negative). An antiserum produced against the MRHA-positive, MSHA-negative strain 4787 and absorbed by the same strain grown at 15 degrees C agglutinated all of the MRHA-positive strains but none of the MRHA-negative strains and completely inhibited the MRHA of these strains. The surface antigen against which this absorbed antiserum was directed was designated "F165." Fimbriae (pili) purified from strain 4787 hemagglutinated erythrocytes in the same mannose-resistant pattern as the strain itself and reacted with the anti-F165 antiserum in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, thus demonstrating the fimbrial nature of the hemagglutinating F165 antigen. The F165 antigen showed no serological relationship with the fimbrial antigens F4, F5, F6, and "F41". A positive correlation between the presence of F165 and the lack of enterotoxigenicity was demonstrated. Thus, we found a new mannose-resistant, hemagglutinating fimbrial antigen, F165, which is produced only by nonenterotoxigenic strains of E. coli serogroup O115. The possible role of F165 as a virulence attribute of E. coli strains causing extraintestinal disease is discussed.
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