A Staphylococcus aureus capsular polysaccharide (CP) vaccine and CP-specific antibodies protect mice against bacterial challenge.
AUTOR(ES)
Fattom, A I
RESUMO
The efficacy of capsular polysaccharide (CP)-specific antibodies elicited by active immunization with vaccines composed of Staphylococcus aureus types 5 and 8 CP linked to Pseudomonas aeruginosa exoprotein A or with immune immunoglobulin G (I-IgG) obtained from vaccinated plasma donors was tested in lethal and sublethal bacterial mouse challenge models. A dose of 2 x 10(5) CFU of S. aureus type 5 CP per mouse administered intraperitoneally (i.p.) with 5% hog mucin was found to cause 80 to 100% mortality in BALB/c mice within 2 to 5 days. Mice passively immunized i.p. 24 h earlier or subcutaneously 48 h earlier with 0.5 ml of I-IgG showed significantly higher average survival rates than animals receiving standard IgG or saline (P < 0.01) following the bacterial challenge. Animals actively immunized with the monovalent type 5 CP-P. aeruginosa exoprotein A conjugate showed a survival rate of 73% compared with 13% in phosphate-buffered saline-immunized animals. The prechallenge geometric mean titer of type 5 CP antibodies in animals that died was significantly (P < 0.05) lower than that of animals which survived the challenge (95.7 versus 223.6 micrograms/ml, respectively). The IgG was further evaluated in mice challenged i.p. with a sublethal dose of 5 x 10(4) CFU per mouse. Serial blood counts were performed on surviving animals at 6, 12, 24, and 48 h. Surviving animals were sacrificed at 72 h, and bacterial counts were performed on their kidneys, livers, and peritoneal lavage fluids. Animals receiving I-IgG had lower bacterial counts in blood samples and lower bacterial densities in kidneys, livers, and peritoneal lavage samples than mice immunized with standard IgG (P < 0.05). These data suggest that S. aureus type 5 CP antibodies induced by active immunization or administered by passive immunization confer protection against S. aureus infections.
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