The growth ofLeptospira australisB in the kidneys of mice in the incipient experimental carrier state

Epidemiology and Infection - Tập 60 Số 4 - Trang 435-442 - 1962
S. Faine1
1Department of Bacteriology, University of Sydney

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The growth ofL. australisB in the kidneys of young mice which become carriers was followed after experimental intraperitoneal infection. There was a primary growth corresponding to generalized acute infection and terminated at the time of appearance of antibody. A secondary growth bf leptospirae followed in the kidneys alone about 7–10 days after infection, coinciding with the onset of leptospiruria and recovery from infection. Subsequently mice carried about 106–107leptospirae in their kidneys permanently.The leptospirae in the urine or in the kidneys of carriers were resistant to the action of antibody in the serum or urine of the host animal, or in rabbit antisera prepared against mouse-renal leptospirae or against cultured leptospirae of the infecting strain. No antigenic differences were detected between renal and cultured leptospirae. An analogous situation is the growthin vitroof leptospirae in homologous antiserum. The mechanism permitting growth of leptospirae in homologous antiserumin vivoorin vitrois unknown.The carrier condition results from the ability of virulent leptospirae to (i) grow in the host and produce lesions in the primary, acute generalized infection, (ii) grow in renal tubules in the presence of antibody.

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Epidemiology and Infection

Tập 60 Số 4

435-442

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