Affiliation:
1. Laboratory of Mycobacterial Diseases and Cellular Immunology, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, United States Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Individuals who are latently infected with
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
can develop active disease via either endogenous reactivation of the latent bacilli or exogenous reinfection with a second mycobacterial strain. In this study, we investigated whether immunization with a tuberculosis DNA vaccine cocktail that induces significant protective responses in mice could prevent reactivation of disease in a murine latent-tuberculosis model. In addition, we assessed whether DNA vaccination could retard the growth of a secondary aerogenic infection with
M. tuberculosis
(exogenous reinfection) in latently infected mice. In the reactivation studies, administration of the DNA vaccine combination did not prevent recrudescence of the latent infection after injection of dexamethasone. Moreover, for the reinfection experiments, only a modest decrease in the growth of a secondary
M. tuberculosis
challenge in DNA-vaccinated animals, compared to controls, was observed 14 and 28 days after the reinfection of previously exposed mice. Interestingly, although proliferation of the secondary challenge was reduced significantly in a nonvaccinated chronic-infection group relative to the naïve controls, the number of bacilli still increased by 500-fold 1 month after the secondary challenge in mice with active tuberculosis. These results indicate that novel immunotherapeutic approaches will be required to prevent reactivation of infection or reinfection of individuals with latent tuberculosis.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Immunology,Microbiology,Parasitology
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