Pulmonary damage by Vibrio vulnificus cytolysin.
AUTOR(ES)
Park, J W
RESUMO
Vibrio vulnificus is an estuarine bacterium that causes septicemia and serious wound infection. Cytolysin produced by V. vulnificus has been incriminated as one of the important virulence determinants of bacterial infection. Cytolysin (8 hemolytic units) given intravenously to mice via their tail veins caused severe hemoconcentration and lethality. Cytolysin treatment greatly increased pulmonary wet weight and vascular permeability as measured by (125)I-labeled albumin leakage without affecting those factors of other organs significantly. Blood neutrophils were markedly decreased in number after cytolysin injection, with a concomitant increase in the level of pulmonary myeloperoxidase activity, indicating that cytolysin-induced neutropenia might be due to pulmonary sequestration of neutrophils. By microscopic examination, severe perivascular edema and neutrophil infiltration were evident in lung tissues. These results suggest that increased vascular permeability and neutrophil sequestration in the lungs are important factors in lethal activity by cytolysin.
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