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Infection and Immunity, August 2006, p. 4512-4518, Vol. 74, No. 8
0019-9567/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/IAI.00474-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Homologous and Cross-Reactive Immune Responses to Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Colonization Factors in Bangladeshi Children

Firdausi Qadri,1* Firoz Ahmed,1 Tanvir Ahmed,1 and Ann-Mari Svennerholm2

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh, GPO Box 128, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh,1 Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Sahlgrenska Academy of Göteborg University, Box 435, S-40530 Göteborg, Sweden2

Received 23 March 2006/ Returned for modification 24 April 2006/ Accepted 3 May 2006

We have studied homologous (HoM) and cross-reacting (CR) immunoglobulin A (IgA) antibody responses to colonization factors (CFs) in Bangladeshi children with diarrhea due to enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) strains of the CF antigen I (CFA/I) group (CFA/I, n = 25; coli surface antigen 4 [CS4], n = 8; CS14, n = 11) and the CS5 group (CS5, n = 15; CS7, n = 8), respectively. The responses to the HoM, CR, and heterologous (HeT) CF antigens in each group of patient were studied and compared to that seen in healthy children (n = 20). In the CFA/I group (CFA/I and CS14), patients responded with antibody-secreting cell (ASC) responses to HoM CFs (geometric mean, 156 to 329 ASCs/106 peripheral blood mononuclear cells [PBMCs]) and to CR CFs ({approx}15 to 38 ASCs/106 PBMCs) but least of all to the HeT CS5 antigen (2 to 4 ASCs/106 PBMCs). For the CS5 group of patients with ETEC (CS5 and CS7), likewise, responses to HoM CFs (230 to 372 ASCs/106 PBMCs) and CR CFs (27 to 676 ASCs/106 PBMCs) were seen, along with lower responses to the HeT CFA/I antigen (9 to 38 ASCs/106 PBMCs). Both groups of patients responded with CF-specific IgA antibodies to HoM and CR antigens in plasma but responded less to the HeT CFs. The responses in patients were seen very soon after the onset of diarrhea and peaked around 1 week after onset. Vaccinees who had received two doses of the oral, killed whole-cell ETEC vaccine (CF-BS-ETEC) responded with plasma IgA antibodies to CFA/I, a component of the vaccine, but also to the CR CS14 antigen, which was not included in the vaccine, showing that antibody responses can be stimulated by a CFA/I-containing ETEC vaccine to a CR-reacting antigen in individuals in countries where ETEC is endemic.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratory Sciences Division, ICDDR,B, GPO Box 128, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh. Phone: 880 2 8860523. Fax: 880 2 8823116. E-mail: fqadri{at}icddrb.org.

Editor: W. A. Petri, Jr.

Infection and Immunity, August 2006, p. 4512-4518, Vol. 74, No. 8
0019-9567/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/IAI.00474-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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