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Infection and Immunity, November 2003, p. 6658-6663, Vol. 71, No. 11
0019-9567/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.11.6658-6663.2003
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Differences in Host Susceptibility to Disease Progression in the Human Challenge Model of Haemophilus ducreyi Infection

Stanley M. Spinola,^1,2,3* Cliffton T. H. Bong,^1, Andrew L. Faber,² Kate R. Fortney,¹ Stacy L. Bennett,¹ Carisa A. Townsend,¹ Beth E. Zwickl,¹ Steven D. Billings,^3,4 Tricia L. Humphreys,¹ Margaret E. Bauer,¹ and Barry P. Katz¹

Departments of Medicine,¹ Microbiology and Immunology,² Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,³ Dermatology, School of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202⁴

Received 16 June 2003/ Returned for modification 21 July 2003/ Accepted 7 August 2003

	ABSTRACT

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With human volunteers inoculated at two sites with Haemophilus ducreyi, outcomes for a subject were not independent. In a reinfection trial, 2 of 11 previous pustule formers and 6 of 10 previous resolvers resolved all sites of infection. There was no correlation between serum bactericidal or phagocytic activity and outcome in the trial. These data indicate that different hosts are differentially susceptible to disease progression versus resolution in the model.

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Human inoculation experiments with many infectious agents have contributed to our understanding of transmission, pathogenesis, natural history, treatment, and vaccine development (12, 25, 31). After inoculation, some subjects may develop disease while others are asymptomatic or recover without treatment. Reinfection experiments usually have addressed whether experimental or natural infection with a pathogen affords protection against subsequent experimental challenge (5, 14, 17, 24, 33). Reinfection trials generally have not addressed the issue of differences in host susceptibility to disease.

To study Haemophilus ducreyi pathogenesis in humans, we developed an experimental model of infection in human volunteers (40). In the model, subjects are inoculated at multiple sites with strain 35000HP (HP, human passaged) via puncture wounds made in the skin of the upper arm by an allergy-testing device (6, 39). Within 24 h of inoculation, papules develop. These spontaneously resolve or progress to pustules in resemblance to the initial stages of natural chancroid. Lesion outcomes for an individual subject inoculated at multiple sites with identical suspensions of 35000HP sometimes differ in that a pustule may develop at one site while another site resolves (6, 39). Due to the fact that outcomes at different sites are not always the same, we initially used site as the unit of measurement for the calculation of papule and pustule formation rates. These analyses show a significant effect of the estimated delivered dose (EDD) on papule and pustule formation rates (4, 10). Although there is no effect of gender on papule formation, men are twice as likely to form pustules as women (consistent with the high male-to-female ratio in natural disease) (10).

Throughout experimental infection, H. ducreyi colocalizes with collagen and fibrin and professional phagocytes (7, 8). Fibrin and collagen deposition occur as part of the normal process of wound repair and provide a matrix for the infiltrating polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) and macrophages (7). The presence of fibrin suggests that serum transudates into the wounds. Interestingly, an isogenic mutant that lacks DsrA, an outer membrane protein which has several functions (including serum resistance) (13, 15), forms papules that do not progress to pustule formation (11). In pustules, the parent 35000HP strain is surrounded but not taken up by PMNs or macrophages. Thus, serum resistance and evasion of phagocytosis are virulence determinants in the model.

In the model, some subjects form at least one pustule and other subjects resolve all papules. Some individuals might be prone to resolution because their serum kills the organism or promotes opsonophagocytosis or because their phagocytes take up and kill the organism effectively. Conversely, some subjects might be prone to pustule formation because they lack effective clearance mechanisms.

In this study, we retrospectively analyzed our data with naïve volunteers to see whether sites behaved independently within each subject. We reasoned that if sites behaved similarly, host effects were likely to play a role in outcomes. If sites behaved dissimilarly, different outcomes could be due to factors unrelated to immunity such as variations in inoculum delivery. We also tested the hypothesis that there is a host effect on outcome by conducting a gender-matched reinfection trial of previous resolvers and pustule formers.

Analysis of site independence. Of 116 volunteers who participated in human challenge trials once (prior to 1 January 2001) (38), 90 were included in the analysis of site independence. The 90 volunteers were infected at two sites each with strain 35000HP and achieved definite clinical outcomes (pustule formation or resolution) at both sites prior to antibiotic treatment. Results were divided into three dosage categories with approximately equal numbers of subjects. Within each category the expected number of people with 0, 1, and 2 pustules was calculated on the basis of the observed pustule formation rate and the assumption of independence. The observed and expected values were compared to determine whether this assumption was reasonable. If the sites behaved independently, approximately 43 (48%) of the subjects should have formed one pustule, but only 25 (28%) did (Table 1). Subjects for whom both sites resolved or formed pustules (n = 65) also exceeded the expected number (n = 37). These results suggested that there was a host effect on the outcomes for the sites.

Informed consent was obtained from the subjects for participation and for human immunodeficiency virus serology in accordance with the human experimentation guidelines of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Institutional Review Board of Indiana University—Purdue University at Indianapolis. The experimental challenge protocol, the preparation and inoculation of the bacteria, the calculation of the EDD, the clinical observations, and the treatment with antibiotics were done exactly as described previously (6, 39, 40). Each subject was inoculated on the upper arm with three doses of live strain 35000HP bacteria and one dose of heat-killed bacteria. The clinical end point was the development of a painful pustule, resolution of infection at all sites, or 14 days of infection. Determination of the end point required agreement between two study investigators. When the end point was achieved, up to three sites with active disease (if present) were subjected to biopsies performed with a punch forceps. Each pustule was minced in 1 ml of RPMI 1640 for flow cytometry studies that have been reported previously (20, 36) or are unpublished. To conserve the eukaryotic cell yield, only 10 µl of the tissue suspension was grown in cultures. Sites where disease had resolved clinically were not subjected to biopsies, because resolved sites contain no inflammatory infiltrate and are culture negative (39).

We hypothesized that previous pustule formers would have a 20% chance of resolving infection at all three sites inoculated with the parent strain and that resolvers would have an 80% chance of resolving at all three sites. A total of 10 subjects in each group were required to have 80% power to detect this difference (using a one-tailed Fisher's exact test) at a 5% significance level (a 20% resolution rate versus an 80% resolution rate). Due to the gender effect on pustule formation, the subjects were gender matched. There is no effect of ethnicity or age on pustule formation (4, 10), and we did not match these variables.

A total of 22 volunteers enrolled in the study. One male resolver failed to appear for scheduled challenges twice and was excluded from the analysis. The resolver group consisted of one man and nine women (mean age ± standard deviation [SD], 33 ± 10 years) who had been infected with the parent strain (n = 4) or in mutant-parent strain trials (n = 6) (Table 2). The pustule formers consisted of two men and nine women (mean age ± SD, 42 ± 10 years) who had participated in parent strain (n = 3) or mutant-parent strain (n = 8) trials (Table 2). The resolvers had been challenged initially with inoculations at 26 sites with 68.2 ± 21.4 (mean ± SD) CFU of strain 35000HP or a virulent isogenic mutant of 35000HP and had formed no pustules. The pustule formers had been challenged initially with inoculations at 37 sites with 52.9 ± 20.6 CFU of strain 35000HP or a virulent mutant derived from 35000HP and had formed 23 pustules. The mean interval from the first to the second challenge was 638.7 ± 467 days in the pustule group and 604.4 ± 558.8 days in the resolver group.

Of 21 pustule biopsy cultures grown for the trial, 13 yielded growth of H. ducreyi. According to the results of flow cytometry, the samples that did not yield positive cultures contained CD4 cells, in consistency with the presence of inflammatory infiltrate in experimental lesions (20, 36) (data not shown).

One subject (187RR) had three papules at the end point. Biopsies were performed for two of the papules and the heat-killed control site, and each specimen was cut into halves. One half was cultured semiquantitatively (39, 40). The other half was fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde for histologic examination and immunohistochemical studies for the T-cell antigen CD3 (8, 30). These specimens and uninfected upper-arm skin provided by another donor (30) were coded and examined by a dermatopathologist who was unaware of the code. Both papules were culture negative. However, both papules contained a perivascular mononuclear infiltrate composed predominantly of CD3 cells and were histologically identical to papules of experimental chancroid (30) (data not shown). The heat-killed control site was histologically similar to uninfected upper-arm skin (data not shown).

Taken together, the data indicate that gender-matched pustule formers and resolvers were equally susceptible to infection in that they had similar papule formation rates. However, the subjects tended to segregate towards their initial outcomes when rechallenged, indicating that some hosts are prone to resolution while others are prone to pustule formation. We had assumed there would be an underlying pustule formation rate of approximately 70% at sites in the pustule former group, but the observed rate was only 42%. Almost all (87%) of the reinfection trial participants were women, who have lower pustule formation rates than men (10), which may have limited our power to detect a difference between the two groups. Nevertheless, several analyses of the data approached or achieved statistical significance.

Of 135 naïve subjects who have been challenged to date with an EDD of strain 35000HP of 40 CFU, 30.4% (95% CI, 22.8 to 38.8%) are resolvers and 69.6% (95% CI, 61.1 to 77.2%) are pustule formers. Our investigators previously reported a reinfection experiment in which all seven subjects in a pustule former group developed pustules when rechallenged (5). The previous study was done before we were aware of the gender effect on pustule formation, and the participants included five men and two women (5). Taken together with the present trial, our cumulative experience is that 11% (95% CI, 1.4 to 34.7%) of 18 pustule formers and 60% (95% CI, 26.2 to 87.8%) of 10 resolvers resolve all sites of infection in a second challenge. Our cumulative data supporting a host effect on site outcome has implications for the design and analysis of trials done in the model. For example, in mutant-parent strain trials each subject is inoculated with parent and mutant strains, which controls for the host effect (38). However, analyses of these trials will also need to account for the correlation among sites for each subject.

Serum resistance assays. To examine whether the difference in outcome between the pustule formers and the resolvers was due to differences in serum bactericidal activity, we determined the survival of strain 35000HP in their sera. Serum was obtained at the end point of or within two weeks of participation in the trial, processed to preserve complement activity, frozen, and stored. The survival of strain 35000HP was determined in a bactericidal assay, using 50% serum exactly as described previously (19). Results were expressed as percent survival [(CFU in wells containing serum with active complement/CFU in wells with heat-inactivated serum) x 100]. The serum-susceptible Escherichia coli K-12 strain HB101 was included in each assay to ensure that each serum contained active or inactive complement. Three independent experiments were performed to obtain a mean percent survival value for each subject.

The subject data were analyzed in groups according to clinical outcomes. For the group of subjects who did not resolve twice (n = 9), the mean percent survival ± SD of strain 35000HP was 57.4 ± 25.2%. For the group who formed pustules once and resolved once (n = 6), the mean ± SD was 74.0 ± 32.3%. For the double-resolution group (n = 6), the mean ± SD was 69.0 ± 15.1%. Thus, there was no correlation between serum bactericidal activity and outcome in the trial.

Phagocytosis assays. To examine whether the difference in outcome between double-pustule formers and double resolvers was due to the ability of their PMNs and macrophages to take up the organism, we recalled subjects from each of these groups to donate blood. Only four double resolvers agreed to participate, and they were matched with four double-pustule formers. Blood was obtained from each subject once, and each blood sample was assigned a letter so that the source of the specimen was not known to the person performing the assays.

PMNs and monocytes were isolated using 1-Step Polymorphs (Accurate Chemical & Scientific Corporation) according to the manufacturer's instructions. PMNs (5 x 10⁵) were seeded onto serum-coated glass coverslips, and monocytes were seeded onto glass coverslips. The monocytes (2 x 10⁵) were cultured for 8 days in RPMI 1640 (Gibco) supplemented with 10% heat-inactivated human AB serum (Sigma) to allow differentiation into macrophages.

Phagocytosis assays were performed with strain 35000HP/pRB157K, a gift of Eric Hansen, which expresses green fluorescent protein (GFP). Positive and negative controls for the assays included GFP-expressing Yersinia pseudotuberculosis YPIII derivatives (23) that were the gifts of Joan Mecsas. Y. pseudotuberculosis strain 582 contained the virulence plasmid pYV that expresses several antiphagocytic Yop proteins, while strain 756 is cured of pYV and is readily phagocytosed. Assays were done at a multiplicity of infection in the range of 1:1 to 10:1. For these assays, 35000HP/pRB157K was grown in brain heart infusion broth containing 0.1% starch as described previously (19). The Y. pseudotuberculosis strains were grown in 2x YT medium containing 20 mM sodium oxalate and 20 mM MgCl₂ supplemented with ampicillin (100 µg/ml) or chloramphenicol (20 µg/ml), as described previously (23). Bacteria were either not opsonized or opsonized with 100% autologous complement-replete serum, centrifuged onto the phagocytes at 10°C to synchronize uptake, and then incubated with the phagocytes for 30 min at 35°C. The slides were washed, fixed overnight at 4°C, and then stained with fluorescently labeled antibodies (Abs) for visualization by confocal microscopy (7, 8). Phagocytic cells were labeled with anti-CD45 monoclonal Ab (BD Biosciences) followed by a tetramethyl rhodamine-conjugated secondary Ab (Jackson ImmunoResearch). Because H. ducreyi is small and difficult to visualize, extracellular H. ducreyi bacteria were also labeled with polyclonal anti-H. ducreyi antiserum followed by an indodicarbocyanine (Cy5)-conjugated secondary Ab. Intracellular H. ducreyi fluoresced with GFP, while extracellular H. ducreyi fluoresced with Cy5 and GFP. Images were taken of three to five independent fields, and a mean value of 150 PMNs or macrophages was scored for the presence or absence of intracellular bacteria to obtain a mean percentage of phagocytes that took up bacteria for each subject. The subject data were analyzed in groups according to clinical outcomes.

Under opsonic and nonopsonic conditions, there were no significant differences in the percentages of phagocytic cells from the double-pustule formers and double resolvers that were associated with each bacterial strain (data not shown). There were also no significant differences in the ability of PMNs or macrophages from the two groups to take up strains 35000HP/pRB157K and Y. pseudotuberculosis 582 or 756 (Fig. 1). For macrophages, 35000HP/pRB157K was taken up to an extent that was more similar to that of the antiphagocytic Y. pseudotuberculosis 582 than to that of the pYV-cured Y. pseudotuberculosis 756 (Fig. 1). For PMNs, 35000HP/pRB157K had an intermediate phenotype relative to the Y. pseudotuberculosis strains. Our results confirm that strain 35000HP has antiphagocytic properties for primary cells, as has been shown for macrophage-like cell lines (1, 48). However, there was no gross correlation between phagocytic activity in vitro and outcome in the trial.

View larger version (29K): [in this window] [in a new window]   FIG. 1. Percentages of PMNs and macrophages isolated from double-pustule formers (black bars) and double resolvers (open bars) that took up bacteria under opsonized and nonopsonized conditions. Results are expressed as the mean and SD for each group. Hd, strain 35000HP/pRB157K; Y, YPIII strain 582; Y-, YPIII strain 756, which was cured of plasmid pYV.

Work done over the past two decades shows that T cells modulate the effectiveness of the PMN response in a murine model of intraabdominal infection (29). Athymic and cyclophosphamide-treated mice are less prone to abscess formation than control mice; these effects are reversed when T-cell-deficient mice are reconstituted with T cells from normal mice (28, 34). Abscess formation is blocked by interference with the T-cell costimulatory pathway with CTLA4Ig or by administration of interleukin-2 (IL-2) (43, 44), suggesting that immune suppression mediated by regulatory T cells promotes phagocytic failure and abscess formation (35).

An emerging literature suggests that pathogens interact with antigen-presenting cells to induce the development of regulatory T cells that suppress immune responses, facilitating organism survival in some cases and limiting tissue damage in others (22). Suppression of the immune response by regulatory T cells appears to be mediated by IL-10, transforming growth factor ß (TGF-ß), and possibly other unknown mechanisms that involve direct cell contact. Interestingly, approximately half of the T-cell lines isolated from experimental chancroid have characteristics of regulatory T cells in that they produce both gamma interferon and IL-10 but no IL-4 in response to the presence of H. ducreyi (18). Although volunteers who have a previous history of keloid formation were excluded from the human challenge trials, 22 of 139 (14.7%) subjects developed hypertrophic scars at sites that were infected and at which biopsies were performed. This rate is much higher than the incidence in the general population (2), considering the ethnic and racial composition of the volunteers. Hypertrophic scar formation is associated with excessive TGF-ß production (27, 46). We postulate that H. ducreyi causes a tolerizing response that promotes phagocytic failure in pustule formers and a proinflammatory response that promotes clearance in resolvers. Women are more prone to autoimmune diseases or loss of self-tolerance than men (21, 32). If H. ducreyi induces tolerizing responses less frequently in women, women should be less susceptible to pustule formation than men (10).

In summary, our data show that some hosts are prone to form pustules and that others are prone to resolve experimental H. ducreyi infection. Future studies will examine whether H. ducreyi interaction with antigen-presenting cells in vivo leads to excessive production of IL-10 and TGF-ß, which in turn leads to accumulation of regulatory T cells at sites of infection, and whether tolerizing responses occur more frequently in men than in women and in pustule formers than in resolvers.

	ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

 
This work was supported by grants AI31494 and AI27863 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The human challenge trials were also supported by grant MO1RR00750 to the General Clinical Research Center at Indiana University.

Confocal microscopy was performed at the Indiana Center for Biological Microscopy. We thank Martha Greenwald and Abby Olusanya for their assistance in the clinical trial, Mike Apicella and Mark Simons for their advice on the phagocytosis assays, Barbara van der Pol, Byron Batteiger, Ray Johnson, Brad Allen, and Eric Hansen for reviewing the manuscript, and the volunteers who participated in the trial.

Editor: F. C. Fang

	FOOTNOTES

 
* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Medicine, Indiana University, 435 Emerson Hall, 545 Barnhill Dr., Indianapolis, IN 46202-5124. Phone: (317) 274-1427. Fax: (317) 274-1587. E-mail: sspinola{at}iupui.edu.

Present address: Department of Medicine, UCLA Geffen School of Medicine, Westwood, Calif.

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