Interaction of polymorphonuclear leukocytes with smooth and rough strains of Brucella abortus.
AUTOR(ES)
Kreutzer, D L
RESUMO
The bactericidal activity of guinea pig and human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) against a smooth-intermediate strain (45/0) and a rough strain (45/20) of Brucella abortus has been examined. After incubation for 120 min, guinea pig PMNs incubated with either the smooth strain 45/0 or the rough strain 45/20 exhibited no bactericidal activity against the former and caused only a 34% decrease in viability of the latter. Human PMNs were more bactericidal than guinea pig PMNs to both strains; however, the killing of strain 45/20 by human PMNs was less than that observed in control experiments with S. aureus strain 502A. Both strains of B. abortus readily associated with guinea pig and human PMNs, and the bacteria were apparently ingested without stimulation of the hexose monophosphate pathway. Lysates (10 micrograms/ml, pH 5.5), prepared from guinea pig or human granules, were not particularly toxic to either strain unless supplemented with H2O2 and a halide (I- or Cl-). An oxygen-dependent killing system appeared to be lethal against both strains of B. abortus, with I- being more active than Cl- in the presence of H2O2 and granule lysate. The data suggest that degranulation after ingestion of Brucella by phagocytes does not occur due to the lack of a proper stimulus or possibly the baccilli actively inhibit the degranulation process thereby protecting the microbe from killing systems normally effective against extracellular parasites.
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