Limited protective effect of rough mutant antisera in murine Escherichia coli bacteremia
- 1 July 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Infection
- Vol. 10 (4) , 228-232
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01666916
Abstract
Previous studies in mice have demonstrated differing immunoprophylactic activity of antisera against rough mutants ofEnterobacteriaceae in the prevention of lethal gram-negative bacteremia. In this study, in which CF1 mice were made bacteremic with a serum-resistantEscherichia coli 06:K2:H1, the composite survival was significantly (pE. coli 0111. The protective efficacy of these preimmune and hyperimmune sera did not differ significantly. Since considerable variability in the mortality of control mice occurred in the 25 separate experiments, the results of individual experiments were grouped retrospectively according to survival in the individual control groups and compared for evidence of possible differences in the efficacy of these two sera. With the exception of a statistically significant difference in the efficacy in one group receiving an LD75–95 inoculum, no such differences were noted. Thus, the variable effects of a rough mutant antiserum were not explained by differences in the relative virulence in the inoculum. This study confirms earlier observations by others that the protective efficacy of the anti-J5 antisera in infected mice does not differ appreciably from that of normal rabbit sera, provided the same donor rabbits are the source of both preimmune and hyperimmune sera. Versuche zur Wirksamkeit einer Immunprophylaxe gegen die tödliche gramnegative Bakteriämie bei Mäusen mit Antiseren gegen Rauhmutanten vonEnterobacteriaceae brachten bisher unterschiedliche Ergebnisse. In der vorliegenden Studie wurde bei CF1-Mäusen eine Bakteriämie durch einen serumresistentenEscherichia coli 06:K2:H1 Stamm hervorgerufen. Wenn die Tiere ein bis zwei Stunden vor Injektion der Bakterien mit normalem Kaninchenserum oder Antiserum gegen die J5-Mutante vonE. coli 0111 i. v. vorbehandelt wurden, war die Gesamtüberlebenzeit signifikant erhöht (p75–95 erhalten hatte. Die unterschiedliche Effektivität von Antiseren gegen Rauhmutanten läßt sich folglich nicht mit den Unterschieden in der relativen Virulenz des Inoculum erklären. Die vorliegende Studie bestätigt somit frühere Beobachtungen anderer Untersucher, daß die Wirksamkeit von Anti-J5-Serum und normalem Kaninchenserum nicht wesentlich verschieden ist, vorausgesetzt, daß das Serum vor der Immunisierung und das Hyperimmunserum von demselben Kaninchen gewonnen wurden.Keywords
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