کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
3377452 1219986 2008 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Protection against systemic fatal pneumococcal infection by maternal intranasal immunization with pneumococcal surface protein A (PspA)
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری ایمنی شناسی و میکروب شناسی میکروبیولوژی و بیوتکنولوژی کاربردی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Protection against systemic fatal pneumococcal infection by maternal intranasal immunization with pneumococcal surface protein A (PspA)
چکیده انگلیسی

Streptococcus pneumoniae is a leading causative pathogen responsible for various types of bacterial infectious diseases in children. The aim of this study was to evaluate the protection conferred against fatal pneumococcal infections during infancy by maternal intranasal immunization with pneumococcal surface protein A (PspA). Four-week-old female BALB/c mice were immunized with PspA mixed with, or without, cholera toxin B (CTB) intranasally twice a week for 3 weeks. After the final immunization, they were mated with male mice to obtain offspring. Offspring at 10 days old were intraperitoneally inoculated with a pneumococcus strain, TIGR4, serotype 4. After the infections their survival periods were monitored. Anti-PspA-specific IgG antibody was induced in sera and breast milk at birth and maintained for 14 days during nursing periods in the PspA-immunized mother mice. At birth, offspring delivered from PspA-immunized mother mice had levels of anti-PspA-specific IgG antibody in sera same to those in their mothers on the day of birth. The survival times to death of offspring delivered from PspA-immunized mother mice after systemic fatal pneumococcal infections were significantly extended compared to those of controls. These findings suggest that maternal intranasal immunization with PspA could be an attractive procedure to employ against pneumococcal infections in early childhood.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy - Volume 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 393-398