Use of Bacteriophage Ba1 To Identify Properties Associated with Bordetella avium Virulence
AUTOR(ES)
Shelton, Celia B.
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
Bordetella avium causes bordetellosis, an upper respiratory disease of birds. Commercially raised turkeys are particularly susceptible. We report here on the use of a recently described B. avium bacteriophage, Ba1, as a tool for investigating the effects of lysogeny and phage resistance on virulence. We found that lysogeny had no effect on any of the in vivo or in vitro measurements of virulence we employed. However, two-thirds (six of nine) spontaneous phage-resistant mutants of our virulent laboratory strain, 197N, were attenuated. Phage resistance was associated, in all cases, with an inability of the mutants to bind phage. Further tests of the mutants revealed that all had increased sensitivities to surfactants, and increased amounts of incomplete (O-antigen-deficient) lipopolysaccharide (LPS) compared to 197N. Hot phenol-water-extracted 197N LPS inactivated phage in a specific and dose-dependent manner. Acid hydrolysis and removal of lipid A had little effect upon the ability of isolated LPS to inactivate Ba1, suggesting that the core region and possibly the O antigen were required for phage binding. All of the mutants, with one exception, were significantly more sensitive to naive turkey serum and, without exception, significantly less able to bind to tracheal rings in vitro than 197N. Interestingly, the three phage-resistant mutants that remained virulent appeared to be O antigen deficient and were among the mutants that were the most serum sensitive and least able to bind turkey tracheal rings in vitro. This observation allowed us to conclude that even severe defects in tracheal ring binding and serum resistance manifested in vitro were not necessarily indicative of attenuation and that complete LPS may not be required for virulence.
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