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JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 48, Issue 2, Pages 170-176Publisher
SOC PROTOZOOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2001.tb00299.x
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antibody response; experimental; human; Leishmania; lower trypanosomatidae; pathology; protozoa; West Indies
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Two strains of a presumed lower trypanosomatid isolated from immunocompetent and HIV-infected humans in French West Indies were investigated in vitro and in vivo in a murine experimental model. The ability of parasites to grow in vitro in bone marrow-derived macrophages and their virulence in vivo were assessed. For in vivo infection, two groups of BALB/c mice were inoculated either by the subcutaneous or intravenous route with 10(7) promastigotes at day 0. Infection was monitored by measuring parasite load in liver, spleen, foot pad, popliteal, and mesenteric lymph nodes and brain from day 7 to day 150 post-infection using a microtitration technique. Parasites multiplied in mouse macrophages in vitro. In vivo, both strains proved infective to mice and capable of visceralization and dissemination in the popliteal and mesenteric lymph nodes, liver, spleen, and even brain. Both strains elicited a strong humoral response against trypanosomatid antigen in mice, which cross-reacted with Leishmania antigen. Contrasting with the straightforward dissemination of parasites, the infection was strikingly well tolerated by the murine host with no clinical signs and minimal tissue changes around parasitized macrophage infiltrates.
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