Affiliation:
1. Trudeau Institute, Inc., Saranac Lake, New York 12983
Abstract
Infection of several strains of laboratory mice with a virulent strain of
Yersinia enterocolitica
was followed by performing viable bacterial counts on homogenates of selected tissues at intervals after intragastric, aerogenic, or intravenous infection. It is observed that CD-1 mice are more susceptible to
Y. enterocolitica
infection than either the C
57
B1/6 or B6D2 strains. Development of an enteric infection is dose dependent; less than 5 × 10
7
organisms by mouth yields sporadic, low levels of systemic infection, with many of the animals showing no apparent infection. Increasing the challenge inoculum by a factor of 10 eliminates the variability among the animals, giving rise to an enteric infection in all of the mice that moves quickly to the mesenteric lymph node. The bacterial population in the lymph node multiplies rapidly, and the infection is disseminated to the spleen, liver, and lungs, ultimately killing most of the animals. Exposure to an aerogenic challenge of less than 1,000 organisms resulted in a fulminating pneumonitis with an invariably fatal outcome. Intravenous challenge with 500 organisms caused a rapidly fatal, systemic infection. The growth of the bacteria in the intravenously infected mouse depends upon the temperature at which the challenge inoculum had been grown in vitro. At temperatures below 26 C, the bacteria are cleared from the blood at a slower rate and are more resistant to intracellular killing, as compared to organisms grown at 37 C. This effect results in the inoculum increasing to greater numbers in the tissues in a shorter period of time.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Immunology,Microbiology,Parasitology
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