Affiliation:
1. Department of Microbiology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
Abstract
The susceptibility of suckling mice to oral infection with several different
Vibrio cholerae
was determined. Mice up to 10 days of age were uniformly susceptible to oral infection with 10
8
colony-forming units of virulent organisms. Age-dependent resistance occurred thereafter to a maximum at about 15 days of age. The efficacy of selected vaccines was compared by oral challenge of 8-day-old, passively immunized CFW mice. An Ogawa-derived ribosomal antigen was found to be superior to a commercial whole-cell vaccine or to purified cholera enterotoxin. The ribosomal antigen was 50- to 100-fold more protective than the other vaccines on a weight basis against otherwise lethal challenge with Ogawa, Inaba, or El Tor Ogawa serotypes.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Immunology,Microbiology,Parasitology
Cited by
28 articles.
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