Affiliation:
1. Trudeau Institute, Inc., Saranac Lake, New York 12983.
Abstract
Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) mice resolve naturally acquired Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia after reconstitution with immunocompetent spleen cells and can therefore be used as a model to study latent P. carinii infection. Neither P. carinii nor amplified P. carinii DNA was detected in the lungs of SCID mice killed 21 days after spleen cell reconstitution. Furthermore, SCID mice that recovered from P. carinii infection failed to reactivate the infection after they were either depleted of CD4+ cells for up to 84 days or depleted of CD4+ cells and treated with corticosteroid for 35 days. These results indicate that an immune response to P. carinii can completely clear the organism from the host. This supports the hypothesis that P. carinii pneumonia that develops in immunocompromised patients may be a new infection resulting from exposure to an exogenous source of P. carinii and not necessarily from reactivation of latent infection.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Immunology,Microbiology,Parasitology
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