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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
卷 199, 期 2, 页码 231-241出版社
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20031319
关键词
persistence; Slc11a1; carriage; interferon-gamma; monocytes
资金
- NIAID NIH HHS [R01 AI026195, AI26195] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [P30 DK056339, DK56339] Funding Source: Medline
Host-adapted strains of Salmonella are capable of establishing a persistent infection in their host often in the absence of clinical disease. The mouse model of Salmonella infection has primarily been used as a model for the acute systemic disease. Therefore, the sites of long-term S. typhimurium persistence in the mouse are not known nor are the mechanisms of persistent infection clearly understood. Here, we show that S. typhimurium can persist for as long as 1 yr in the mesenteric lymph nodes (MLNs) of 129sv Nramp 1(+/+) (Slc11a1(+/+)) mice despite the presence of high levels of anti-S. typhimurium antibody. Tissues from 129sv mice colonized for 60 d contain numerous inflammatory foci and lesions with features resembling S. typhi granulomas. Tissues from mice infected for 365 d have very few organized inflammatory lesions, but the bacteria continue to persist within macrophages in the MLN and the animals generally remain disease-free. Finally, chronically infected mice treated with an interferon-gamma neutralizing antibody exhibited symptoms of acute systemic infection, with evidence of high levels of bacterial replication in most tissues and high levels of fecal shedding. Thus, interferon-gamma, which may affect the level of macrophage activation, plays an essential role in the control of the persistent S. typhimurium infection in mice.
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