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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-11-9
pubmed:abstractText
In cystic fibrosis (CF), infection with Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) strains may cause long-term asymptomatic airway colonization, or severe lung infection leading to rapid pulmonary decline. To assess the virulence of Bcc strains, we established a lung infection model in mice with a null allele of the gene involved in X-linked chronic granulomatous disease (CGD). CGD mice, challenged intratracheally with 10(3) cells of the epidemic Burkholderia cenocepacia strain J2315, died within 3 days from sepsis after bacteria had multiplied to 3.3 x 10(8) cells. Infected mice developed neutrophil-dominated lung abscesses. Other B. cenocepacia strains and a B. cepacia strain were less virulent and one B. multivorans and one B. vietnamensis CF isolate were both avirulent. Bcc mutants, defective in exopolysaccharide synthesis or quorum sensing revealed diminished or no abscess formation and mortality. Immunofluorescence staining of Bcc-infected murine and CF lung tissues revealed colocalization of Bcc and neutrophils, suggesting Bcc persistence within neutrophils in CGD and CF. In vitro, Bcc cells were rapidly killed during aerobic neutrophil phagocytosis; however, the pathogens survived in neutrophils with blocked nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase activity and under anaerobic conditions. We conclude that the Bcc infection model in CGD mice is well suited for the assessment of Bcc virulence.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1462-5814
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
9
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2817-25
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17627623-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:17627623-Burkholderia Infections, pubmed-meshheading:17627623-Burkholderia cepacia complex, pubmed-meshheading:17627623-Disease Models, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:17627623-Female, pubmed-meshheading:17627623-Lung, pubmed-meshheading:17627623-Lung Abscess, pubmed-meshheading:17627623-Male, pubmed-meshheading:17627623-Membrane Glycoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:17627623-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:17627623-Mice, Knockout, pubmed-meshheading:17627623-NADPH Oxidase, pubmed-meshheading:17627623-Neutrophils, pubmed-meshheading:17627623-Polysaccharides, Bacterial, pubmed-meshheading:17627623-Quorum Sensing, pubmed-meshheading:17627623-Sepsis, pubmed-meshheading:17627623-Survival Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:17627623-Virulence, pubmed-meshheading:17627623-Virulence Factors
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Virulence of Burkholderia cepacia complex strains in gp91phox-/- mice.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, Wilhelmstrasse 31, 72074 Tübingen, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't